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...shack in the woods near Syracuse, N. Y., students of Cazenovia Seminary smoked in furtive privacy. Last week, startled, they learned that Student Theodore Kensicki, 17-year-old aspirant to the ministry, was about to "squeal" on them. Eight of the smokers lured Student Kensicki with soft words to a lonely spot. While he kicked, lunged, writhed, they tore off his clothes, scrubbed his skin raw and. bleeding with a wire brush. Into his sorry scratches they then rubbed iodine. They left Student Kensicki screaming with pain, minus five teeth. Soon they left the seminary, suspended by the president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cunning Gauss | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part of a slaughtered animal ?flesh, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, bristles, offal, everything "except the squeal." But more than this, he belonged to the band of giants of his time?Henry H. Rogers (Standard Oil); John W. Gates, speculator from California; August Belmont, Charles T. Yerkes and Thomas Fortune Ryan who managed street railways to their own profits. Those of these men who still live have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burnt Grain | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Heflin: I have just read the Congressional Record of Jan. 28. I am glad my shaft struck home! It pierced your thick hide. It made you squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Heflin v. Priest | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Committees and the various trials that grew out of his election to the Senate, indicated that he had some zealous, but unwise friends, who were mainly responsible for the nasty situations which developed after his election, and that he, in line with his conduct all through life, would not squeal on them in order to save himself, and these friends were not courageous enough to take the burden on their own shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

When the public goes to a repertory theatre it knows what it's in for, and it shouldn't squeal. If it gets more than its money's worth, it goes home in a pink haze of pleasure. If it achieves no more than a notion of the excellence of a great play, the price of admission may be written on its budget as Educational...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/27/1926 | See Source »

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