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...watching them breathlessly. Suddenly Teacher cries a sharp command. The children spring to their feet, jump up and down, leap on their chairs and desktops, run, scream, yell, pull hair, bleat, catcall, caterwaul, whistle, shout, gibber, bang fists, stamp feet, kick out, fall down, scramble around. Seeing the pandemonium slacken, Teacher joins the spectacle, waves arms, shouts, yells, halloos, squeaks, bellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox Elects | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...summer season is now at hand when production and trade slacken, and when the farmer begins to see where he will probably come out with his autumn harvests. During the past week, attention has thus naturally centred on crops. In general, the outlook is unusually good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Current Situation: Jul. 20, 1925 | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...public stands, it was announced by the H. A. A. ticket office last night. The tickets for the reserved sections, which constitute a little less than one half of the Stadium capacity, were all given out before 1 o'clock yesterday to a line of applicants which did not slacken for four hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREAT DEMAND QUICKLY DRAINS ALL NURMI TICKETS | 5/21/1925 | See Source »

...This is the first of the regular summer shows. The Four Marx Brothers, members of the Old Guard of vaudeville, keep it careering along with an unflagging versatility that not even temperature can slacken. The theatregoer can enjoy the production with his whole diaphragm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 2, 1924 | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

...yard dash, against the famous Loren Murchison, the fastest man in the country on an indoor track, W. R. Chase '26 and A. H. Miller '27 are the strongest University entries. It is possible that a recent automobile injury will slacken Murchison's speed, in which case either Bernie Wefers, Jr., or Charles Carroll, two New York A. C. representatives, may pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELAYS ARE CRIMSON BEST BET TONIGHT | 1/26/1924 | See Source »

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