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...Lady Luck, Leiber alone and Dickey with this in mind--the Sage offers no Mancuses. (Wow...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huesy ooc., | Title: SAGE OF AGE IN NEW ROLE, TURNS TO SERIOUS BUSINESS | 10/6/1937 | See Source »

There may be something to Einstein's crooked light beams; but to shoot bullets around corners, through a barrel embedded in a propeller shaft revolving several thousand times per minute-Wow! Even if the barrel grooves would turn in the same direction as the propeller the velocity of the bullet would, in order to be effective, far exceed that of the propeller revolutions; so that, even if the bullet should manage to leave the propeller shaft, the accuracy of its aim would be as cockeyed as that of the New Year's soak trying to hit the keyhole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1937 | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...presence of 750 spectators, the largest audience ever attracted to the Ames finals, the "Root-Pitney" lawyers successfully championed the rights of taxpayers to recover $2,000,000 worth of processing and floor taxes paid under the defunct A.A.A. Counsel for the government was the "Pow-Wow" club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOT-PITNEY TEAM WINS LAW CLUB COMPETITION | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...Wow" members who will receive the less substantial loser's check, are Dwight K. Parsons and Andrew S. Grey, speakers; and John G. Brooks, 2d., Samuel W. Earnshaw, John G. Hurd, Thomas W. Leidy, Frederic J. Poor, Jr., and Howard S. Whiteside, who worked on the brief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOT-PITNEY TEAM WINS LAW CLUB COMPETITION | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...taxpayers will be two members of the "Root-Pitney" law club, W. Parmer Fuller, of San Mateo, California, and Gerald H. Trautman of Cambridge. Their opponents, representing the government, will be Dwight K. Parsons, of Kent, Ohio, and Andrew S. Grey, of Philadelphia, both members of the "Pow-wow" club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGES IN MOCK TRIAL THIS EVENING CHOSEN | 1/22/1937 | See Source »

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