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

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

...sleek as freshly peeled willow. As overalled mechanics trundled her out for the warm-up at March Field one day last week she gleamed slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sleek, Fast and Luckless | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Forbes, riding at the number one post for Harvard, led the Crimson scoring with six goals, tying Cadet West for scoring honors. Gay Dillingham at number two, wafted the willow pellet through the posts twice to complete the Harvard tallying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Army Poloists Nip Crimson 10 to 8 in Closing Minutes | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Defeats Without Battles | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

There are two changes in the CRIMSON nine, Robby Feller being choson for pitching in place of Morry Earle and Cappy Weinberger, the sunkist San Francisco slugger, taking ever the second hassock instead of the former choice, a far less wily willow wielder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FELLER, GOD ON MOUND TODAY AS LEGITS, ILLEGITS CLASH | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

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