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...deep in snow his hosts did not even know where to start looking for it, and the afternoon spent on skis made the Vagabond wish he had included a few lectures on his list which would have explained the technique of extricating oneself from an inverted position in a six-foot snow drift with grace and precision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

Near Cairo, Egypt, last week, the police commandant discovered, living alone in a six-foot shack, an Arab who said he was born at the opening of the American Revolution (153 years ago) and who remembered the massacre of the Mamelukes by Mohammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ring | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert by Ibn Saud, who, with an oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vin Mousseux de Champagne | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...ditch head first and Amber-wave, one of the favorites, fell after him. The rest were all closely bunched with Billy Barton, Darracq and Bright's Boy out in front. The eighth jump is the Canal Turn, a thorn fence five feet nine inches high with a six-foot ditch on the take-off side and an 18-inch guard rail in front of the ditch. Eighteen horses fell as if a machine gun had been playing on the top of the fence. Horses without riders galloped off in the mist following Ace II, now eight lengths ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Bronson Cutting, New Mexico's new six-foot Senator, could not feel that Col. Stewart's attitude was "plausible." Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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