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...personal history which the robbers left behind was discovered by two young artists renovating the house. Beneath the dust and grime of a century, Mr. and Mrs. James Heugh found three ripped canvas mail sacks. Letters lay strewn among the joists, the seals broken, envelopes and messages separated helter-skelter. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Addressee: Dead | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Suddenly (showing that the crazy helter-skelter of tanks was as tightly controlled by radio as a well-commanded platoon of infantry) all the tanks of one adversary wheel out of the fight. The other tanks also go off to a rendezvous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: What War Looks Like | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...year-old Denny Shute of Chicago, a 50-to-1 shot. As for the Texans, Nelson shot 73, Hogan 74, Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shooting at Fort Worth | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight Sleep | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...which had had its roof stripped off, they extracted the injured, the dead and the dying. Telescoped into the tender was the Limited's baggage car. Six sleepers, the diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl, after 41 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wreck of the Lake Shore | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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