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...might be noted that the Arlberg School differs primarily from other schools in that a crouching rather than upright position is assumed, and from the three fundamental crouching positions which reduce the center of gravity of the skier, it is easy to swing into turns and stops...

Author: By N. E. Disque, | Title: Dartmouth Becomes "Ski-Conscious" as Faculty and Students Enjoy Outing Club Activities on Many Snowy Mountain Slopes | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

Neither ascetic nor erudite was Professor Lee's father, sinister "Old Tom" Lee, chief On Leong Tongsman and redoubtable "Mayor of Chinatown." Old Tom's wife was white. He shielded her and little Frank whom she reared an upright Baptist. Opium dens, eerie tunnels under Mott Street and stranglings in the dark are no childhood memories of Professor Lee, whose features and color resemble his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Secessionist Movements | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...absence of my personal counsel, your statement is utterly false. May I be heard further? I have lived my whole life in this city. I was born here. I have lived an honorable and upright life. My life has been devoted principally to two defendants in this case, and you have used your official capacity to slander and vilify me. It is my opinion that you are a greater criminal than anyone that ever stood before your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stotts | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...cackled, "I hope I don't capsize the boat and drown everybody!" ¶ Sitting bolt upright on his bench St. Gandhi attempted to improve his mind by reading the full report of the first Indian Round Table Conference. Shrilly he protested that it invariably caused him to fall fast asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Kindly Light | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...surface craft to cover. A Swedish radio station heard a faint "Hello, hello, hello" in English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerican Airlines, sponsor of the projected air route, declared that Pilot Edward Preston would soon take off on a similar testflight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights of the Week, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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