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Came a sudden cloudburst. Roads were washed out. Impossible to move. Black night descended. Fitfully in their busses the travelers dozed. Came, out of South Africa, a noise like distant thunder, then the full-chested, long-drawn reverberant roar of lions in the bush, a sound no lion makes in captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Tree Top Tourists | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that by the time Mount Weather is fitted for Presidential occupancy the White House chauffeur will have to go out of his way to find a mudpuddle even after a summer thunder shower. TIME'S road map is out of date. WELLS A. SHERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...year he would stay in Europe, traveling, taking his little pleasures.* In the U. S. there are concert tours, a few operatic appearances, fabulous offers from cinema concerns. But in Europe, with friends and family who call him "the little angel papa," he will rest, wear his rough clothes, thunder for vodka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rumor Confirmed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...ming, a stone cutter, found a small sigil in the foothills of the Taihang mountains. It evidently had belonged to a priest long since dead, for lo! as Han stooped to pick it up, a vision came to him. He heard a voice like the Voice of Thunder. The Voice told Han that the sigil would cure diseases, that soon a leader would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Virgin Birth | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Give it to 'em!" was the answer. The garage became a thunder-box of explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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