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"It is a distinct asset for any chaplain to be of such athletic build and temperament that he can execute any task assigned to him in the briefest time possible. . . . Military bearing and neatness are extremely significant. Nothing can more quickly destroy an officer's influence and efficiency than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chaplains Chief | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

Impressed, the customs officials bowed obsequiously when Ambassador Davies told them he had lost the Soviet permit enabling him to pass the frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Candid Capitalist | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

"They're so untidy; their knees and elbows stick out in the wrong places. I felt like buying some of them a new hat."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Freshman Finds Cambridge What She Expected; Amazed by Untidy Harvard Students | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

Albert Payson Terhune is a big, beefy man who cultivates untidy hair and a vast reputation for knowing and loving dogs. On the subject of Man's Best Friend, he has written millions of well-paid words. Last week small Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dogman Damned | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

In 1811 President Kirkland in the first artistic landscaping undertaken in the Yard eliminated the beer barrels and the untidy wood yard, but the pump remained as a gathering place for students and an object of hilarious pranks, until 1901, when it was destroyed, an easy target for a "Med...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tercentenary Column | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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