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...expressions. The right head is bolder than the left. First to emerge from the sheltering shell after a fright is the right head. That head usually makes the first snatch at food. Food always causes a contention between the heads. One tries to pull food from the other. They tug until the fly, cricket, or scrap of meat tears apart...
...large-headed little gnome whose name is Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton) stood in Dorchester last week with a string in his hand. He gave the string a tug. some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world...
...snakes glared into each other's cold beady eyes, along came snake No. 3, a six-foot Cape cobra, which coiled itself nearby and raised its hooded head to inspect the tug-of-frog...
Captain Lenin, Captain Trotsky and today Captain Stalin have never been afraid to alter Russia's course?the course of over one-seventh of the world?by a sudden titan's tug at the helm. Last week Captain Stalin tugged...
...other skilled proletarians will be raised, Stalin indicated, above the wage level of unskilled proletarians and despised white collar yes-men. Up to last week the theory of Soviet wage scales (varied some-what in practice) was approximate wage equality between the skilled and the unskilled. With a mighty tug Stalin seemed to shift the whole Soviet wage structure ?in a direction seemingly opposite to Communism...