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Last week end 61 alleged plotters were tried in batches and executed, 53 by shooting, seven by the garrote which chokes and punctures the spine. More arrests were promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Conspiracy | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Because his mood was ornery, hers kittenish, an elephant named Bill last August butted his 3,000-lb. mate, Hilda, into a 14-ft.-deep moat at their Prospect Park (Brooklyn) home. Death shortly came to Hilda. The fall had fractured her spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Retribution | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Manhattan Island is a stony spine of land occupied by millions of tons of masonry and 8,000,000 souls. To Europe it is a dream, to itself a business, and to the U. S. at large a cultural gold fish bowl. A lot of people this summer are going to see it for the first time. In sober moments they might remember the work of a woman who has devoted herself for ten years to seeing it, and making her camera see it, as material for history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abbott's New York | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...seems that Harvard will always have the non-scholarly as well as the scholarly student. Undoubtedly the C man has a place; he is the spine of the extra-curricular activities, which in their way are as essential to college life as the curriculum. It is usually the C man who desires a broad education, but it is doubtful whether he would sacrifice concentration and tutorial-regardless of how little time he gives them-for a backward system based merely on course credits. No matter how intellectually incurious is a student, he prefers personal to mob instruction in theory, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEGY ON EDUCATION | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

...renomination last summer, may not be so brilliant as his late father, "Big Alva," who was Governor of Colorado for two terms, or so colorful as his Uncle Billy, who ranched in the San Luis Valley (whence came Jack Dempsey) and was Governor thrice. But his spine last week was stiff for economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Snow on the Lawn | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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