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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Powdery snowflakes whispered down through the dusk. The wind drowsed. Out of a cavernous shed on a field in Belleville, Ill., a great grey shape slid out of lurking and moved off through the gathering night, purring a basso profundo that swelled to a dull roar as a white eye and a red in the creature's belly were seen to rise from the earth, twinkle slowly higher and disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Maiden | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

There was some doubt as to the seriousness of Smith's injury at first, but the injured member is again in good shape. Jones, who broke a rib before the Dartmouth game, suffered a second mishap when he sprained an ankle in scrimmage, and it is doubtful whether he will play tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH TO LEAD FIVE AGAINST TECHNOLOGY | 1/12/1926 | See Source »

...circle is as straight as a real line can be, and truly measures the shortest distance between two points in the universe as it actually exists?that is, in a universe full of conflicting masses of electricity and spinning bodies whose pulls and counter-pulls "warp" space "out of shape." But a mathematical system for measuring universal space cannot properly be called "geometry," which means "earth-measurement"?Dr. James Pierpont, Yale University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Kansas City | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Ponies in Bad Shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAMPION POLO THREE OPENS INDOOR SEASON | 1/9/1926 | See Source »

...University and Princeton skaters initiate the Big Three hockey campaign at 8.20 o'clock tonight on the Hobey Baker rink at Princeton. Fifteen Crimson stick men accompanied Coach Bigelow to the Tiger lair and the entire squad with the possible exception of Gross, speedy left wing, are in excellent shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUCK CHASERS OUT FOR TIGER'S PELT | 1/9/1926 | See Source »

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