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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SUMMIT OF MT. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11: Over the headwall in a hurry Vorlager beer awaited us and doughnuts for Tonkin in our coffee. And what a girl . . . 1 Haug her once, I Haug her twice, and then I Klister. Oh, Boy! Sohm fun! But she says Seal Skin me alive if I try again. Oh, Shuss, the Pole, Bildstein got her first, and I'm left Tiering my hair in vain...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey and On Pro, (SPECIAL WIRE TO THE CRIMSON)S | Title: HU FLUING HUEY, NOW ON PRO, TAKES A FLING AT SKING | 2/12/1937 | See Source »

Woolly-headed Fatty Pfaff, in Arrowsmith, set out for his medical examination with a set of notes in his pocket, not to peek at but in the hope that their contents might soak through his skin. Last week was in many a U. S. college the week of midyear examinations and woolly-headed students were glad to get any kind of last-minute cramming advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crammers | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...than a clinical thermometer, gives a maximum of 80,000 candlepower. A lamp of this length requires 8,000 volts (1,600 volts for each inch) but the current is only 1.5 amperes. Physicist Bol believes his little tubes will be useful for lighting airports, cinema projection, treatment of skin diseases. He has leased manufacturing rights to General Electric Co. and Philips Glow Lamp Co. of Holland, declared last week that two motion picture companies had approached him with offers. Cost figures were concealed last week but a Bol intimate said they were "ridiculously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cool Stars | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...John C. Calhoun in 1829 and Thomas Riley Marshall in 1917. *Only exception was Governor George Earle of Pennsylvania who, as became his Presidential ambitions for 1940. followed the great New Dealer's example by taking his drenching in an open car so that throngs, wet to the skin, could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Swearing in the Rain | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...begin to cast suspicious glances towards heaven. I shall hide myself quickly under the table and sit there tamely and quietly, without raising my voice." Chekhov took his success and its inevitable criticism calmly. The one shaft that got under his skin was that, almost alone in a socially-minded day, he took no interest in social problems. Chekhov certainly did not believe in Art for Propaganda's sake: he thought that "a writer should be just as objective as a chemist." But he surprised his critics by suddenly taking himself off to the Island of Sakhalin, Russian penal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of the Little | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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