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...freight left Hartford, Conn., last week and arrived in Havana, Cuba. It carried Royal typewriters. The carrier was a Ford-Stout all-metal, three-motor airplane. Included in the equipment was a device to drop freight by parachute. It dropped these typewriters from a height of 700 feet. Unbruised, they worked perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Did Not Crush | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...religious activities in U. S. colleges. Having ended Union Theological Seminary studies, he took his wife, who had herself studied medicine, to China. There their baby was born in 1898 (the excitement interrupted one of the young father's most interesting letters), teethed, had colic, caught the grip, grew stout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pitkin's Bone Hammer | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...State of Illinois to establish in Chicago headquarters for her proposed "Navy of the Lord," evangelical organization to be modeled after the Salvation Army. Her tabernacles are to be called "Four Square Gospel Lighthouses," are to have towers imitative of the U. S. Coast Guard lighthouses. Mrs. McPherson, stout-hearted against mockery, is to call herself "Admiral." Her underlings will assume naval titles, naval-like costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Navy of the Lord | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Sure you can," said a stout gentleman. "Be calm. Just go ahead and 'tend to Mr. Flinn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Doctor | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Princeton in recent years he acquired a stout following chiefly among members of the Philadelphian Society, the university Christian organization. These young men, made zealous, tried to bring their friends to grace, delving with dangerous ignorance into delicate problems. The university authorities asked Mr. Buchman to keep away, banned his technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchman House Party | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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