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Solemnly the Soviet Ministry of Light Industry announced last week "the discovery that excellent felt can be made from human hair." Barbers throughout the Soviet Union were urged to vie with each other in "comradely competition" to collect hair and give it to the State. Leaders in the contest were promised as a reward free trips to the Soviet Riviera for vacations in former tsarist palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More Hair! | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...namesake the nation had given him all its sympathy but to him went no plaudits for any new achievement. When in 1928 Walter P. Chrysler became Man of the Year his Manhattan office building was starting to rise as the world's tallest, his Chrysler Motors organized to vie with General Motors. Now the Chrysler Building is overtopped by the Empire State and the automobile industry is pinioned on the rock of hard times. The prestige of 192g's Man of the Year, Owen D. Young, world financier, friend to Samuel Insull, is still great but even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man of the Year, 1932 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...moment this large order, the Lutherans took up other things. The 560 delegates in Philadelphia represented 30 U. S. and three Canadian synods, with 962,461 communicants. The three Canadian synods petitioned the convention to let them out, pleading that as an independent, patriotic group they could better vie with Canada's other merged Protestant churches. Their petition was to be discussed this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: United Lutherans | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Unlike most undergraduate poets, Authoress Millay in this trial flight kept her immortal longings strictly under control. Her airily unpretentious blank verse, never seeking to vie with Marlowe or Milton, avoids comparisons, succeeds perfectly in cloaking a little masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleeping Beauty | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

After the formal opening of the Carnival, many different features vie with each other to attract the visitor's attention. The Dartmouth Players present their mid-winter attraction, and fraternity dances are held, climaxed on the last evening with the Carnival Hall. During the day athletic contests take place, not only winter sports but also varsity swimming and basketball...

Author: By The Dartmouth, | Title: Discussion Held At Dartmouth in 1910 To Find Way of Keeping Outdoors in Winter Resulted in Skiing Interest | 10/22/1932 | See Source »

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