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Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: WAR IN SPAIN | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...tune of a liquid waltz played over the public address system. Twenty-four blue-clad forms dived in as one and glided into compelling formations. The one that excited most interest and speculation was the cartwheel, in which the fair ones split into groups of three. Two would tug at the legs of a third companion in what seemed to be an effort to rend the latter asunder. Then the beauties spelled out a shimmering "H" in the center of the pool...

Author: By Charles N. Poliak ii, | Title: 24 Sleek Mermaids 24! Caper For Delighted Carnival Fans | 2/24/1939 | See Source »

...browns full of warm or cold shine from the color elements in them. His compositions are sometimes epigrams in paint: a lighthouse stout and stark on a green hill crest with telephone poles slanting one way on one side, the other way on the other, as if in a tug of war that keeps the lighthouse rigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Composers | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...first release included scenes from the annual alumni home-coming parade, the Temple-Pittsburgh football game, the annual president's reception, a peace convocation and the freshman-sophomore tug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Newsreel | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...totes two St. Christophers, one a statue given him by a Galway pilot, the other a medal from a passenger. Swore he: "I spun that medal around and said, 'Well, St. Chris, what about it?' He said, 'Go to it.' " Next day sheepish operators and tug hands came to a hasty agreement. Said chagrined Tsar Ryan: "St. Christopher ought to be made to join the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Commodore and Christopher | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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