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Although Mr. Wyndham Lewis has to a certain extent gone out of the field of his other work in "The Enemy of the Stars," he is still essentially the controversialist. The two characters. Arghol and Ramp, unreal as they seem, express in a convincing manner the ideas of Mr. Wyndham Lewis, ideas that were way ahead of their time of dealing with the conflict between Labor and Capitalism...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 10/14/1932 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Hounds | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Judges admitted last week that the final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Columbus Light | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...train carried the bodies from London to near Cardington, where a great pit had been prepared. While bombers circled, Royal Air Force men carried the coffins down a ramp, laid them in orderly rows, twelve coffins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: R-101 Sequelae | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...JAMES RAMP Y. M. C. A. San Francisco, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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