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...Another back hard to overlook is Tennessee's fast-stepping George Cafego. who has gone a long way toward making Coach Bob Neyland's Volunteers the No. 1 surprise of the year. Considered second-class by most pre-season prognosticators, Halfback Cafego & Co. ran up a string of eight victories in a row, made it nine last week against Kentucky (46-to-0), won the championship of the Southeastern Conference and wondered if they would get a bid to the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wondering Boys | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...First-class relics are parts of the body; second-class, clothing which the saint wore; third-class, anything the saint used or touched. Where relics are known to exist, any church, religious community or pious person may apply for one, usually obtaining a second-class relic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Devil's Advocate | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Pasteur. Down the ways of Penhoet's big shipyards at St. Nazaire, France, fortnight ago screeched a 30,000-ton French Line luxury ship for the France-South America run. All the 695-ft. vessel's first and second-class rooms, as well as some of the third class, will be outside. Top speed will be 28 knots, far faster than anything in the South Atlantic. Her predecessor was the Atlantique, mysteriously burned out during her trials in 1933, on which London and other insurance groups paid $11,000,000 insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Ships | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...repeal of the 90-year-old subsidy, originally enacted to promote distribution of newspapers and magazines, uplift educational and moral standards. In 24 hours the President had his answer from the American Newspaper Publishers Association. It took a quick sense of its postal committee and solemnly denied that second-class privileges amount to a subsidy. "Charges of private agencies of transportation and distribution" are "far less than those of the Post Office for the same service," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Loud Smell | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Moscow, seat of the University of Idaho, population 5,000, was a second-class post-office town when Doc Robinson settled there. It has jumped to first class, Psychiana having sent out more & more mail-$14,852.63 worth last year. A beginners' Psychiana course of 20 lessons costs $20, includes an examination and the right to ask Doc Robinson for personal advice. (On a typical day last week he voiced 387 replies by dictaphone, which three stenographers took down.) Advanced courses of ten and 40 lessons cost respectively $10 and $50. Sending these out keeps 60 Psychiana employes busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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