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...Biggest sock came to automobile owners. The annual automobile tax was upped 66⅔ % to 25 shillings a horsepower. The owner of a 30-horsepower Ford will pay each year about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: We Can Take It | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

When F. D. R. you want to sock, Page Lippmann, Johnson, Kent or Krock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Calumny | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...went to Scotland in 1706 to spy out political sentiment for his secret master, Secretary of State Robert Harley, he improved his time by picking up believe-it-or-not tales of a bridge over a dry river (between Glasgow and Sterling), of fishermen who killed porpoises with a sock on the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Original Lonelyhearts | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Without pausing to remove hat & overcoat, portly Dr. Clendening strode around to the valve and feed pipe of the air-compressor supplying the pneumatic drills. Sock! Crack! went the ax. The drills fell silent, but not Dr. Clendening. At the marveling WPAsters he roared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Where Lou Ruppel specialized in "sock," Managing Editor Borden specializes in poise, acquired at Dartmouth (Class of 1926), Harvard (M.A.), University of Chicago, where he taught Shakespeare until he joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Borden for Ruppel | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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