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...many a way of spending it, too. Some take the boat or train or plane or what have you for the "Sunny South" and come back looking bronzed and fit like a tycoon. We tried this on a time but frankly found it wanting. First, the Gulf Stream was rougher than the Channel or the Devil's Hole, and the ships must be small to get into Bermuda's harbor. When the sea starts bristling, it does something to the pit of our stomach. Second, we baked our back on the beach the first day, cooked it so fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Lions will be a far tougher team to beat in New York than they were here. They play a rougher game than any other team in the League, and the Crimson will be far more bottled up. Red Lowman scored 18 points in that clash a few weeks back in the Indoor Athletic Building, and as a result the Light Blue team will be trying to cover him far more closely. Yale beat the Columbia five when the teams clashed in New Haven, but in the return game a few nights ago they found the going much tougher, lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

Today Coach Whiteside concentrated on racing starts against the Freshman boat. In the rougher water of the New London course, the Yardlings and the Jayvees have been experiencing some difficulty in keeping the boat level, but have been increasing their power at a padding stroke. The program calls for a two-mile time trial for the Freshmen on Thursday with the Second Varsity boat furnishing the opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RED TOP HOPES HIGH AS YALE TIME IS BETTERED | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

Egloff: Alcohol-gasoline is a distinctly inferior motor fuel in performance, consumption and upkeep of motor. Difficult starting, slow acceleration,'over-heating of engines, and rougher driving can be expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Convening Chemists | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...that no matter how the popular vote distributes itself among Japan's civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America might well take a rougher line with Japan was the loud thesis last week of Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senator, being about to excoriate Japan, handed out advance copies of his speech in Washington. Japanese correspondents slapped this on the cables, and Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Soviets v. Empires | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

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