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...whole world is upset by an insidious confusion that arises from the fact that we have an extra day thrown into an otherwise smoothly running stream of time. The system is so inaccurate that every four hundred years, as regularly as the sun rises and sets, we must skip a Leap Year. Could anything be more ridiculous than skipping a Leap Year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUBVERSIVE SYSTEM | 2/29/1936 | See Source »

...they had admitted their failure and had abdicated. . "Abdicated? Yes, in 1933, but now with the passing of danger they forget their damaging admissions and withdraw their abdication. [So excited were Democratic Congressmen that they cheered here, too, by mistake. Taken aback, the President lost his place, started to skip a sentence] "They offer. . . . They offer. . . . They seek-let me put it that way," he interjected, covering up his slip. "They seek the restoration of their selfish power. They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street. . . . "They steal the livery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: State of the Union | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...attended Mechanic Arts High School, where he starred on the track team. In 1912 he was on the Olympic Team, competing in the broad jump and the hop, skip, and jump. In 1924 and 1928 he was assistant coach of the Olympic Team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eddie Farrell Granted Leave of Absence Because of Ill Health | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...hated female cyclists, was held to be sane by a court in Winchester last week, sentenced to be hanged. In the circumstances Mrs. Violet Van der Elst, wealthy and eccentric British widow who usually protests in person every hanging in the United Kingdom (TIME, April 15), was expected to skip that of Mortimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death to Mortimer | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

From the Champion's quarters came two cordial invitations to Business to skip rope with him. It was announced that any industry which would like to try NRA again was welcome to apply to George L. Berry, longtime printers' unionist and onetime Blue Eaglet. The United Press also reported that the Administration was seven billion dollars behind its immediate spending program, would soon "issue a revised budget that will give a new, sharper and more glowing picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roadwork | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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