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Plugging along at a good clip, with a night mistral lashing her buttocks, the Italian motor ship Orazio last week made for Barcelona. She lay 38 miles south of Toulon. Below decks slept 412 passengers -an aviator with his two small children, four nuns warm in their cotton gowns, the noble counselor of the Italian Embassy in Chile, merchants, soldiers, teachers, tourists. On the bridge the petty officers mumbled against French wind, and against the French contraband authorities who had detained the Orazio four hours to search her and take off some Germans. Captain Michele Schiano was a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fire in Wind | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...great majority of us are snowed under by an avalanche of medical journals. Too many doctors choke their offices with unopened magazines 'useful to throw at the cat,' and the only way a busy physician can keep up with his field is to clip and catalogue practical articles. Facts may be said to be buried rather than recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Dick Harlow drove his Varsity gridmen through another long workout yesterday afternoon as preparations went on at a fast clip for the Bulldog skirmish Saturday. For the second day in a row the squad moved over underneath the Stadium lights for the final 15 minutes of work with the dummy bags...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: GRID SQUAD GIVEN LENGTHY WORKOUT POINTING FOR ELIS | 11/22/1939 | See Source »

...about time we got ourselves a little really decent jazz. Every big Midwestern school has at least one good band, and even Yale has creditable imitations of one. So with drum majorettes and stuff, it would seem as if the old place is taking life at an increasingly fast clip...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

...supplier in 1937 was Argentina with 28,000,000 lbs., and China was second with 20,000,000. Because of the Japanese war, China's exports to the U. S. are now zero. Because of war in Europe, other suppliers of carpet wool have had their entire clip embargoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Good Clip | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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