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Burns, veteran center fielder of the first team, gathered in tow hits to lead his team at bat. Six of the first seven men on the first nine's batting list were able to contribute to their team's total of seven hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE WINS PRACTICE ENCOUNTER | 4/5/1927 | See Source »

...ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Hours late because of floods and washouts the Simplon-Orient Express from Paris drew wheezing into Bucharest last week, with the Royal Salon Car in tow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mayor of the Palace | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...over the rail, his bloodshot eyes staring into the water. Dejectedly he said, "We've done everything we can. Two months of it and we're tired!" He gave orders to capture the two capricious, runaway pontoons, to flood the ones floating,-it was an impossibility to tow the submarine to port with her stern resting on the bottom. Smashing seas imperiled the small boats and crashed together the four pontoons, rendering the re-submergence extremely hazardous. The first man to volunteer for the job of opening the valves was an engineer and before orders could be outlined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Unredeemed | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...most monstrous electric locomotive-a train-hauler driven by six motors developing 4,500 horsepower. Over 20 meters long (65 ft.), weighing 283,350 Ibs., is can be driven by one man and will hurtle along at 100 miles an hour with a loaded passenger train in tow. Soon it will be in service on the International Electric Line, racing over the Alps to Berne; plunging through the Simplon tunnel into Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monster | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

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