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Yet another hurricane sprang from Honduras last week, snaked round the Caribbean, then struck straight at Mexico's big oil port, Tampico. Rivers rose, wires were down, rails were up. For hours on end no one knew what had happened, then, from the sputtering wireless of ships that managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Most Immense Tragedy | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

Like swamp fire, revolutionary feeling snaked underground from Bolivia and Peru (see col. 3) last week, to break out in three different places in Latin America.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Alarums & Excursions | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

Pittsburgh would feel the heat and be tired from the ride, and who was Pittsburgh, anyway? In their nine straight victories this year they had not played the kind of stuff that was on Southern California's schedule. So figured Californians, more confident than ever when they felt the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

Cornell could not put anything in Wittmer's way when he snaked a kick-off past them for a touchdown, but after that excitement Princeton rooters sat drearily while red jerseys went through centre, guard, tackle for safe gains. Cornell 13, Princeton 7.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Chief Justice Taft's Mother Yale last week marched sluggishly through Georgia; wavered, struggled, stopped in front of a light but savage Georgia line. Spurning the handsome Bermuda grass of the brand new field in Athens, Left End Vernon ("Catfish") Smith of Georgia's little bulldogs helped block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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