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...high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock. No. 1 prize of the tournament goes to the man who shoots down the last remaining chunk of the bird. He is crowned king and is awarded a "ten-beer boot" (boot-shaped glass 2½ ft. high) which custom says he must fill and pass round & round & round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pedigreed Marksmen | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...left wing which is now the whole bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...love. The incidents of their romance are pathetically meagre-dances to the music of the camp band, a brief mutual inspection of the moon, a single excursion by canoe to Eagle Rock. Behind these incidents, imprinted with the devastating clarity of a picture-post card, is an animated bird's-eye view of thousands of U. S. summer days at thousands of U. S. Kamp Kare-Frees -the crude japeries of the camp's recreational director, the oily friendliness of the proprietor, the wreckage caused by a thunderstorm on the night of a Japanese lantern fiesta, the iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...only two nations with orthodox balanced budgets. Almost self-sufficient in raw materials except for wheat, rice and steel, Peru enjoys a favorable foreign trade balance ($35,400,000 in 1936) largely through extensive exports of cotton, sugar, silver, oil, copper, vanadium and the high-smelling guano (bird manure). Social reforms were pushed by the late, ironfisted, dapper little President Augusto Bernardino Leguia (1919-30), who borrowed heavily to build roads, improve sanitation and ease the lot of Peru's predominantly Indian population. Wide-girthed President Oscar Raimundo Benavides has continued this program with increased road building, industrial development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR-PERU: Second Chaco? | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...thinking why the girl-and-bird of you move. . . . moves. . . . and also, i'll admit-) till, at the corner of Nothing and Something, we heard a handorgan in twilight playing like hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobody's Poet | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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