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...argument for reviving the ancient games: "The cause of peace will have received a new and powerful support." Just the opposite is likely to happen at the 16th Olympiad in Australia this fall, says the Naval Academy's veteran Crew Coach Russell ("Rusty") Callow-unless someone beats the whey out of the Russians. A Russian victory, Rusty told a Baltimore men's club last week, "would bring on an arrogance that would endanger the peace of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sometimes I Wonder | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...bushels (a year's crop) of wheat, 657,703,000 bushels (three months' supply) of corn, and hoards of butter, cheese, dried milk, barley, beans, flaxseed, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, soybeans, honey, peanuts, tobacco, wool, winter cover crops, linseed oil, olive oil, tung-nut oil and whey. Except for these market-depressing surpluses, the consumption of U.S. farm products in 1955 would be only 1% less than production. Obviously, the real key to the farm trouble is to find more, better and faster methods of unloading the surpluses, not building more and more of them by going back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Heavy Overhang | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

...means that a library is a place where good books are apt to get buried and need to be dug out before they can be dug into. As far as can be gouged. Inky has spent his life waisting his talons in an advertising agency ("That's the whey he was"). He has a Jewish mother-in-law who speaks with "an ageless bit of Joycey sholem asholem humorwit" - except when she takes out her teeth and talk." becomes Inky "all is fond mp-mp of when the she country, [tries] to and believes that a man should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Mp-Mp | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Scots, Who Whey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Cloca Mora Man | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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