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...unemployed class, along with many others. It is indeed unfortunate that men who have spent a lifetime in scientific research now find themselves on the street without a job." One of the American Museum's staff who did not let the museum's comparative poverty stall him was Harold Elmer Anthony, curator of mammals. He and Gilbert Ottley found enough money to sail last week for a two-month trip to Venezuela, to hunt "everything that lives" for his department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Museum Ups & Downs | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

Harvard's third line started the second period with Hale replacing deGive at goal. In less than two minutes, Salton stall accounted for the Crimson's third score on a rebound from Pell. After the first line had returned to the game, Wood duplicated his first period play and added another goal to the total. Late in the period, Thomson and Hrones broke through the Harvard defense to push the puck past Hale for the only M. I. T. score. Two minutes later Baldwin took a pass from Putnam and tallied the last goal of the period. The third period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY SQUAD HAS EASY TIME AGAINST TECH AGGREGATION | 12/10/1931 | See Source »

...Baltimore last fortnight a 30-lb. carp jumped from a stall in the wholesale fish market, bit Mrs. Tillie Levy on the ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve of her neck. In her stall she shows traces of the nervousness which is noticeable in all progeny of her mother. She regards all small objects as likely to be edible and wears a wire muzzle to prevent her chewing her blanket off. The wide margin of Seaton Pippin's superiority was not approached in other classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Show Horses | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...pressure and authority" of the League is not enough to coerce a Great Power like Japan. Also, the Japanese Cabinet was already showing fury at Mr. Stimson's use of the noun "pressure" and the verb "regulate." There was only one smart thing for M. Briand to do: stall. But how? As the Frenchman wracked his agile brain in Geneva, Mr. Stimson provided the thing needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World Waltz | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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