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...object in socker* to kick a round inflated pigskin into a rectangular net, known as goal. But human, feet often err; smite opponents in the shins, groins, stomachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Socker | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...What animal did Balaam smite cruelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game No. 1 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

When a cat catches a mouse, that is not news. But if a mouse should tree a cat, editors would smite their thighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tabby Manna | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...petition for the recall of Gov. Roland H. Hartley. They needed 97,576 signatures in order to bring about a special election. "It will be easy," said the little group. "We will have 100,000 signatures by Dec. 1. The people of the state will leap to smite that man Hartley. He has abused the powers of his office; he has been responsible for the dismissal of that good educator, Dr. Henry Suzzallo, from the presidency of the University of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Recall Falters | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Welsh trouble is on this story; a gypsy wandering and a sad chivalry. He found Danzel again?but he flung away the shilling, into a California river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Shilling | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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