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...with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very cold as they start the motors, and they shiver and mutter as they catch the blast from the props...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fledglings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...born with snowshoe feet or a mountain goat nostalgia for high places. At Harvard these select silver spooners have already formed the Skiers and Mountaineers Club. But the average earthbound yokel can only watch with awe and a weak stomach their feats of block and tackle climbing, and secretly shiver as they madly race down some crooked trail. The boys are good, regular hot rocks, he will have to admit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NORTH OF BOSTON | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...into the horrors of his sleep. These and other apocalyptic afflictions he describes this week in Faith for Living, 333 pages as hortatory as Isaiah, as alarming as The Book of Revelation. But by implying that every right-feeling man these days must awake with a shriek and a shiver in the dead of night to find himself surrounded by phantom parachutists, he somewhat alienates sympathy for his case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intellectuals, Arise | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...past is rising before the Yardlings like a cloud--a past crammed with visions of irresponsible Presidents who have made their roommates Jubilee chairmen and then kidded them playfully for running $1000 in the red. The Freshmen shiver when they hear of a former ice-cream cater, or a milk-drinker, who rose to triumph on his illgotten publicity. It's all very unfortunate, when an election should be such a fine thing, a stimulant to class interest, even a lesson in citizenship. Yes, the Freshmen are right, the old system must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROBLEMS OF MODERN DEMOCRACY | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...quite reassured. Alberto Salinas Carranza, chief of Mexico's aviation, sent a message to Sarabia by air mail: "I shiver at hearing that you intend to return from Washington nonstop. . . . Continue flying with your head and do not permit your heart to intervene. Conserve yourself for our pride, the satisfaction of your family and the envy of the birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Shiver | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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