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...whole hour in which nothing could be heard but the frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Hitler's Promise | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...spot by Whitelaw Reid, the Linotype thus had its first commercial demonstration. Within a year or two it was to prove the most important single development in the printer's art since Gutenberg's invention of movable type more than 400 years before. In making the solid slug of type, Mergenthaler's invention opened the mechanical way for the multi-editioned metropolitan newspaper, the flood of books, pamphlets and magazines on which the 20th Century was floated into being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Linotype at 50 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...year, rating high on the Harvard team which finished second only to Dartmouth. Tom Bilodeau and Frank Owen around the keystone can play any position on any aggregation, at the same time able to swing the number 3 and 4 holes. Al Colwell, at first, captained, caught, and helped slug his 1938 Freshman team to 13 victories; with Maguire behind the plate he shifted to first where he has made rapid progress. After this big four Coach Mitchell has little proved infield material to look at. Carr, a classy fielder but weak hitter, who was with the Jayvees last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

...portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles on to Birmingham where a surgeon extracted a slug sunk one inch in his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Get It Done Quick | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Henry Lloyd '37 is set to slug against the M.I.T. heavyweight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING TEAM BATTLES WITH TECH TONIGHT | 12/13/1935 | See Source »

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