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...companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow and ice which neatly covered the mounds, they found skeletons of men. Tucked away in a cairn of rocks was a faded blue jacket, part of a tent. They had discovered the last camping ground of the Franklin Expedition, which set out from England 85 years ago to find a northwest passage to the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Franklin's Cemetery | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...handled in practice he puts about and goes through the maneuver over again. He speaks quietly to the crew and addresses his sailing master as "Mr." He sails a boat hard and cleverly on the wind and has a reputation as a windjammer, one who would "set a circus-tent on deck in a blow if he could find a pole to put it on." To the brain busy behind his square, high forehead, prodding out through his pince-nez, the U. S. looks as the course signals go up on the committee boat in answer to a southwest September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...child, Rolf. Then she divorced McPherson and took up soul-saving. Once, lacking a crowd, she stood on a chair in the middle of a little town, head upraised, in silent prayer. As soon as a crowd gathered she jumped down, shouted "Quick!", led the bewildered mob to her tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister's Sorrows | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...Once the tent started to collapse. Pointing at the sagging canvas she cried: "I command you in the name of the Lord to stay up until the meeting is over." The top caught on a nail, stayed up. There are numerous stories of miraculous cures she has effected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister's Sorrows | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

...grinning David Chasen. But the main amusement is by Cook and enough people like it to permit its classification, now for the first time in the cinema, as a valid individual outcropping of U. S. humor. The story is a wandering anecdote about a pretty girl who owns a tent and is loved by Cook. Denouement: the tent burning down, the heroine hanging by the ankles in midair, Cook rushing in to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

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