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...wager Phileas Fogg, cucumbrous hero of Novelist Jules Verne's best seller, circled the globe in 80 days. This fictive feat remained a record until 1889, when the late Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, casting about for a circulation-getter, ordered 22-year-old Nellie Ely to "knock about five days off this fellow Phileas Fogg's record." Globe-girdler Bly, bloomered and veiled, sailed from Hoboken, N. J. on a bow-spritted ocean greyhound, completed her stint in 72¼ days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Round Trip | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Miss) CURTIS WAGER-SMITH Willow Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...only other feature attraction at Annapolis is a strangely dimensioned pool which will not permit a 50-yard race to be swum. It has to be a 60, and rumor has it that this race is negotiated across the pool at that. Wager and Englander are the Middies who will handle the sprints. They are not expected to press Jim Curwen...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Hoopsters and Confident Mermen in Action Today | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...tubby, smart John Francis Jr., 15, was sports editor of Barnard School's paper, John Sr. called a big one wrong. If Schmeling beat Joe Louis he promised to eat his hat. John ate a hat all right-a candy and cake creation. John Jr. lost no such wager, but dad's wrong guess was a blow. He said, "Did I lose prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Might I humbly suggest that either your reporter revise his terminology, or examiners of teachers revise their routine to include a cursory perusal of that important area devoted to the function of thought, a few anatomical notches above the cerebellum? I wager many a sagging cortex, many a short-circuited corpus callosum will thus be disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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