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...origin of this "Where's Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...true. Day after Mr. Maverick dropped his bomb, a retort was fired by Franklin Roosevelt, a lover, like his top admirals, of big ships. He told a press conference that he had been studying Naval reports, secret and otherwise since 1913, and that, if he had concluded therefrom that battleships were obsolete, he would not have recommended building new ones. When torpedo boats were invented and again with the development of undersea and aerial weapons, the President said, amateur strategists had declared that battleships were done for. As a professional ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he was still convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Navy Battle | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...precisely 7:45 o'clock last evening an unidentified marauder threw four bricks wrapped in an oil-soaked rag through a side window of a house at 22 Plympton Street, and removed therefrom a lady's pocketbook containing $20 in checks and $10 in cash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURSE-SNATCHER GETS HIS PURSE BY THROWING BRICKS | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...found before. The new find was got safely to a museum in spite of the fighting. Dr. Ralph Works Chaney, University of California paleontologist who had concluded from ancient garbage in the cave that Peking Man ate hackberries, now considered the evidence of upper and lower teeth together, decided therefrom that he was a meat eater as well as a consumer of hackberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Besides new hot water pipes and more pressure resulting therefrom, Dunster House boasts the acquisition of not less than two new waitresses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pioneers and Waitresses | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

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