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Over New Toronto, Ontario, late one night last week, an airplane zig-zagged back & forth to the mild alarm of townsmen, who feared the pilot was lost. Much greater would have been their alarm if they had known that inside the lurching plane its pilot and his one small assistant were desperately fending off the attack of a bull-strong U. S. baseball player who had suddenly become a growling, biting sadist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Fight in Flight | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...Carnival's backbone. A Floridian who learned to ski in Germany, considered by Dartmouth's grizzled Coach Otto Schniebs the best amateur downhill skier in the U. S., Durrance won the downhill race-a precipitous mile down a mountain slide-in 58.8 seconds. In the slalom-zig-zag down a course outlined by pennants in the snow -he wasted three seconds going back to round a marker he had missed, and finished third. At jumping, judges thought his teammate Henry S. Woods showed a shade better style. When it looked as if Dartmouth would win its own carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snow & Ice | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Like Stalin, who also is no profound economist, Hitler pursues an economic course of zigs to the Right and zags to the Left. Last week the Great Zig-Zagger was zigging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Zags After Zigs? | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Zig! He dropped demagogic, anti-capitalist Count Rüdiger von der Goltz from the post of Commissar of Economy to which he was appointed last July with impossible hopes that Count Rüdiger would make the Fatherland self-sufficient, "a pure autarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Zags After Zigs? | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...difficult by a wide divergence of opinion amongst the observers as to the actual appearance and flight of the blinding particle. Although the Observatory's Correspondents generally agreed that the flight was from north to south, a few believed that the meteor took other directions, notably northeast, and a "zig zag course". Estimates of the time the fireball was in the air yary from "not more than a second" to half a minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Observatory Makes Report On Large Meteor Seen In New England | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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