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...scene was a hurricane. Whipping in from the Atlantic Ocean, the storm that was doing millions of dollars of damage elsewhere along the coast hit Garden City the day of the semifinals. Golf tradition, imported from Scotland, where hurricanes are unheard of and where anyone who waited for a tine day would rarely play at all, says golf is an all-weather game. Officials of the U. S. Golf Association refused to hear of a postponement, sent Scotland's Jack McLean and New York's George Voigt, Cincinnati's Johnny Fischer and Omaha's Johnny Goodman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Garden City | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...Williams of Spokane and Victor Grant Jones of Seattle heard of babies who swallowed open safety pins. Accordingly they invented last week what they called a really safe safety pin. It has a reversed spring, so that pressure is necessary to pull the pin open, and the tine when released springs back into its socket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safe Safety Pin | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...roared, "I say have mercy, damn it!" Although God and My Father had value as a recapture of middle-class religious beliefs and customs in New York's 1890's, readers were more interested in the brief, incidental provocative glimpses of the Day household, the rou-tine domestic crises, the wifely art with which Mrs. Day controlled her thundering husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Record of the Rich | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...roared, "I say have mercy, damn it!" Although God and My Father had value as a recapture of middle-class religious beliefs and customs in New York's 1890's, readers were more interested in the brief, incidental provocative glimpses of the Day household, the rou-tine domestic crises, the wifely art with which Mrs. Day controlled her thundering husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Museum Piece | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...injustices committed under a laissez-faire capitalism, must remember that this country was built up through the efforts of ruggedly individualistic capitalists; these men did great things and are so deserving of thanks. But conditions have changed; the frontier is gone and great industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely no desire to ameliorate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITY | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

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