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There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxchasing Foundation | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...yards up the field but the North Central team-pick-ups from the Dakotas and Iowa-went on to a touchdown, playing as if they had trained together all season. Rocky Mountain was a scramble of uncoordinated tricks until the last period when it turned into a team and Thorn of Brigham Young pricked North Central's side. North Central 13, Rocky Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Jan. 13, 1930 | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

Sweet Adeline. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II offered last week their show Sweet Adeline, lampooning softly the notions of the Nineties in a gay and rambling history of which the heroine was a Broadway nightingale, singing with the thorn in her stuffed bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...yard dash--First three men in each heat qualified. First heat--won by T. F. Mason '30; second, Goldsmith (D); third, Swope (D). Time--23 4-5 sec. Second heat--won by Pratt (D); second, Stevens; (D); third, Thorn (D). Time--23 2-5 sec. Final--won by Mason; second Stevens third, Goldsmith. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Spikemen Bow in Meet Featured by Startling Upsets | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...year dash--First three men in each heat qualified. First heat--won by Stevens (D); second, A. E. French '29; third, G. A. Tupper '29. Time--10 3-5 sec. Second heat--won by T. F. Mason '30; second, A. L. Watkins '31; third, Thorn (D). Time--10 3-b sec. Final--won by Mason; second Stevens; third, Watkins. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Spikemen Bow in Meet Featured by Startling Upsets | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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