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...cotton. Fleamen say they can tell a flea's possibilities for the stage by the way it holds its six legs. A flea which always grasps one leg with another will make a ball balancer. One which waves its legs back and forth rapidly makes a chariot racer. Trainers prod the insects with tiny whips when they make mistakes, force them to repeat their tricks. An obdurate flea which refuses to move is prodded into activity, worked harder than the rest. The human flea lives mostly in Europe. Professor Heckler says he obtains his supply from the boat stewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Slaughter | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Wooster, Ohio, Allen Manson, 17, found a blue racer snake coiled around his neck, bit the reptile until it relaxed and freed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Backers | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Asked to explain why they had not given her a license to compete in their meets, the French federation of feminine sports wrote a letter to Madame Violette Morris, hockey player, amateur racer, giving their reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Trousers Censured | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

About the same size was a Ludington "Sportship Senior," Gray-powered, designed by Outboard Racer Jake Dunnell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 1930 Motorboats | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...spend its money on research as he sees, fit. He intends specifically to continue work on his small mono-wheel amphibian and in general to make planes faster, lighter, easier to learn to fly in. He admitted that he might attempt the design of a Schneider Cup racer. He said he would accept research work for any firm engaged in air craft manufacture. With his strong governmental connections, he hoped for contracts from that quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Loening to Research | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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