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...bovine books, the cow has greatly influenced the history of America (says Fussell) and the history of, oh, all of human history (claim Rimas and Fraser). Fussell, a vigorous and delightful writer, focuses her laser-sharp observations on the American West, while Rimas and Fraser are a little rangier, spanning from prehistory to the present and from Argentina to Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Beef, Times Two | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...rapacious Southern family hell-bent for power and money at the turn of the century. If it consists of too much photographed talk, too little movement, that is Hollywood's error for trying to film stage plays instead of designing stories for the camera's rangier talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...basket-weaving, metal work, etc.) at Bellevue in the spring of 1935. The Federal Art Project furnished artist-instructors to hold four or five classes a week for all children and adults, except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed in the past as a matter of psychiatric routine, Director Karl Bowman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Insanity in Art | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...chiefly in the final event, when the M. I. T. and Harvard University eights meet. Little has been said concerning the work of the Tech crews, save for accounts of their showing in the regatta with Navy and Columbia, but Coach Haines' crew is known to be heavier and rangier than any he has ever before put on the Charles. Coach White side has had his first boat make excellent time in trial rows, but tomorrow's race, the first real test of the season for the Crimson oarsmen, should afford them a foe worthy of their best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS WILL HOLD LIGHT TRIALS ON RIVER TODAY | 4/25/1930 | See Source »

...elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied upon the slightly squat pure-bred Siberian variety, had lost to St. Goddard whose team was composed of rangier animals, half wolfhound, half Husky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mush | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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