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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hockey first became generally popular shortly after 1811. The winters were bitterly cold, and it was found that playing hockey was the only way that the men could keep themselves warm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Had Lowly Origin in England--Nineteenth Century British Lads Stickhandled Dead Cats Down London Gutters | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Since he bought his first ship in 1889 Owen Cosby Philipps, now Lord Kylsant, has pioneered in everything that would get ships faster across the damp places and keep their human cargoes warm and dry, and their cargoes of foodstuffs dry and cold. He pushed the adoption of a twin propeller drive. He was ahead with refrigerator cargo ships, reaping millions from frozen Argentine beef. All his life he could have said with Kipling's shipmaster of his competitors: They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, And I left 'em sweating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Biggest Shipman | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...finds the best medium for proliferating. And as the viri develop they travel up the network of nerves in the animal's, or human's, body to the spinal cord, and eventually to the brain. The virus of rabies is more active in cold weather than in warm. There are more dogs actually mad in December than in July, contrary to the vulgar belief in summer "dog days." Nor, as is all too often thought, are all dogs mad that may be seen running wildly, jaws slavering and eyes excited. A dog might be angry without being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rabies | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...endure until vessels reached their ports. The Government did not officially close the river locks at the "Soo" until Dec. 16. As the Sainte Marie smashed the ice, sailors aboard the freighters* enjoyed themselves. Some went hunting, walking across the surface ice. Others played pinochle in the warm quarters provided for them. All fed well, said their masters. They were drawing two weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared. It would freeze again immediately and block some dozen boats still en route. But the Lake Carriers Association, which had ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Job Done | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...influence anybody in any direction." In short he believes, as his final paper on Ethics for social workers shows, in human amelioration under prevailing political, social and economic systems. He is one whose greatest pleasure, short of playing in a stringed quartet, lies in discovering, exhibiting and nourishing warm flesh on the grey bones of platitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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