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Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a rich piece of Americana sung by Frank Luther, is an exhaustive collection of songs of the national pastime, containing such rarer numbers as He's a Fan, Fan, Fan and Let's Get The Umpire's Goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feathered Kapp | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Thus, there have been instances where relatively inferior German aeroplanes have been able to attack ground troops without interference from the air. But these instances have become rarer. In the main the Ju. 86, the Heinkel He. 51 and Arado 68 biplane fighters, and both versions of the Ju. 87, have been massacred by Allied aeroplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Furious Week | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...head. Two badly decomposed skeletons nearby, one wearing a carnelian necklace, were presumed to be those of servants. The mummy itself reposed in a silver coffin, the first ever found in the burial chambers of the Pharaohs. In ancient Egypt silver was called "white gold," and, because it was rarer there than real gold, was held more precious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rarer Than Gold | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Party rebellion is no new thing in U. S. history. (The Republican Party found its left wing rebellious in the Coolidge-Hoover era.) Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still in that it is, save in small things, almost intangible-less a rebellion than a resistance. It is nonetheless the biggest political struggle now going on in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Rare is the celebration or exposition which, when held, is not claimed as "my idea originally" by a camp following of crack-pate "inventors." Rarer is the inventor who actually did have the idea and, rarer still, got paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Fair Idea | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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