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Vigorous Bishop Breynat oversees the North Pole diocese. He inspects his charge by airplane. Father Griffin plans to shorten the devious route from Texas to his parish by flying over as much of the northern territory as possible. When he arrives he will be confronted by difficult tasks. Hostile native sorcerers are slippery hummocks of the spirit. To surmount them his cross must be his alpenstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polar Priest | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...cross chop from several launches which had passed over the course. Crew X had a slight lead as the two eights passed under Harvard bridge, but Watts forced his shell ahead to a position almost a length in front of crew X. Swaim retaliated, but was not able to shorten to less than three-quarters of a length, the lead gained by his adversaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATTS PILOTS CREW TO WIN BY NARROW MARGIN | 4/23/1929 | See Source »

...rowing is concerned, the filling in of the shores will not seriously shorten the courses in the lower Basin, and the substitution of a sloping beach for the present granite wall will reduce the rough water which reflects back from this wall on account of the prevailing westerly winds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...Senator Copeland's filibuster was ended when the Senate consented to shorten the Radio Commission's life to nine months from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House & Senate | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...shorten a long tale, the chauffeur was arrested, confessed that he had forged Prince Stirby's signature, vowed that he had smuggled the $36,000 to confederates outside Rumania, Among the many bitter -enemies of Prince Barbu Stirby the charge was heard, last week, that he was probably his chauffeur's confederate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stupid Bank | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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