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Chief prize of the exhibition, the Mussolini Cup for the best foreign film, went to a decorous, highly instructive spool entitled Man of Aran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man of Aran | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...event, if not a new record. At 6:4, a height at which W. B. Page barely managed to hurl himself over an old-fashioned square bar in 1888 for the first U. S. high jump record, he cleared the bar as easily as a kitten hopping across a spool. Best of the field against him was a thin coffee-colored Negro, Howard Spencer, of Geneva College, who, even more eccentric than Spitz, wore one shoe and jumped with his right foot bare. Spencer took three tries and missed before Spitz reached 6:7. Later, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Higher and Faster | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...Bottineau, N. Dak., a five-month-old baby named Ryan swallowed a spool, breathed through the hole, did not suffocate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...Spool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Swank | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Left. By the late President John William Clark of Clark Thread Co. of Newark and Spool Cotton Co. of New York (died 1928): an estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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