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Hero. A fierce, tropical storm was raging when orders came for the five U. S. bombers to soar up from their base at Managua and succor the 39 marines besieged in Ocotal. He who led the bombers through the storm was 42-year-old Major Ross Erastus ("Rusty") Rowell, an airman only four years in the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Marines Rescued | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Room Registry: The value of the room registry has been recognized by the administration of the school for, many years. It was not until last year however that they opened their hearts and gave us stenographical succor. For this and certain, intangible considerations we are greatly indebted. A list comprising over two hundred certified addresses was prepared and distributed to entering students. Through a system of investigation and student questionnaires we have been able to establish on file a permanent list of approved rooming places. With the advent of the new palatial Medical School Dormitory this feature will undoubtedly undergo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIAL SERVICE HAS NO PLACE | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

...submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin, who gets drunk too often, marries a country wench and offers succor to Angela when her family find that she has loved not wisely and entirely too well. Stephen becomes a poet, whose small success is not justified by the execrable outpourings of his muse so unfortunately quoted by Prose-Writer Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wooden Indians | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...billeted in her house. Only the living-room was left to Mme. Belmont-Gobert. Then, after the soldiers had clumped out to forage for dinner, a light tap came at her back door. With fearful, hungry eyes, a British trooper, Patrick Fowler, asked Mme. Belmont-Gobert to hide and succor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Left-hand Door | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...whispers long, soulful entreaties that the visitor return to life. At length the angel's eyes, of divinest cerulean blue, open, and in accents of which the elegance is matched only by their incongruousness in the midst of a hurricane, a cultivated voice expresses heartfelt appreciation for timely succor under discommoding circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

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