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...Cabinet decided last week to appoint British ambassadors extraordinary who will journey to the capital of every major country in the worM and announce in each the accession of Edward VIII...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Object of My Life! | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...owners considered it worthless. Idea for the stoker is supposed to have occurred to a greenhouse operator who got sick & tired of hopping out of bed to stoke his furnace on cold nights. The iron works had actually turned out a few crude stokers, using a feeder worm similar to that in a meat chopper. Several months after the iron works changed hands, inquiries began to straggle in from people who had seen the stoker in operation. Suddenly realizing they were missing a trick, the two contractors dusted off the old plans, developed an improved model along lines already laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: First Firemen | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...epidemic of German Measles. Why should this be? What barm do the cyclists do? What dangers do they bring with them? Can the Metropolitan District Police find nothing better to do than drive cyclists from the Harvard Lollery? Surely, as Edgar Guest might state, the crushing of a worm is neither a laudable nor a difficult achievement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADCLIFFE CIRLS AND THE M.D.C. BOYS | 11/13/1935 | See Source »

...party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: Happy Jay Birds | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Reason: the Eastern Army, striving to bite its way in from Assab on the Red Sea to cut Ethiopia's only railway near Dire Dawa, (see p. 17), faces obstacles of terrain all but insurmountable. It must skirt the blazing, uninhabitable Danakil Desert, worm its way up jagged mountain gorges, cross fever-ridden swamps. Only chance for quick success depended on bribing the local Ethiopian satrap, Ras Yayou, who styles himself "Sultan of Aussa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Positives | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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