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...pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Yellow Giant | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...thus the new evidence must go unheard, even though "if presented to a jury" it might possibly "justify a different verdict". These words are quoted by the Court from a previous case in which the "different verdict" meant a different distribution of property: they are applied to this case in which a "different verdict" means a difference between life and death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL FLAWS ARE EVIDENT IN TRIALS OF SACCO-VANZETTI | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...weekly magazine which had already distinguished itself by its fatherly interest in collegiate affairs has just announced a series of articles on the "morality, or lack of morality, found in American colleges." The inevitable questionnaires have been sent out, asking if various misdemeanors, not unheard of in the world outside, have been observed within the academic walls. The American co-educational student, particularly, is dragged over the coals the faults of women are naturally more interesting to readers of the type who by now are familiar with the legend that the college man is a fur-coated rogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNOOPING AGAIN | 3/12/1927 | See Source »

...worth seeing in New York must necessarily be personal and limited--personal since the relative value of a few plays in about 70 can be nothing else then that, and limited because a resident of Boston can not possibly see all the plays which come and go at an unheard of rate...

Author: By T. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...decisive margin of 803 votes to 376, an audience in Baltimore recently acknowledged the forensic triumph of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania over Oxford. Quite a triumph indeed, for a small and relatively unheard of institution to defeat the wellknown Britishers, and in itself a fact worth passing notice. But in addition it involves facts of far greater import. The afore-mentioned audience happened to be composed to the extent of ninety-five percent, of colored listeners, the debaters of Linclon University were themselves colored, and the debate was held in the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. This is indeed something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISSIPATING A MYTH | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

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