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...scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud, the writhing slab flattens out under these successive squeezes until it is a hundred-yard ribbon, as flexible as a snake's tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pickled Snake's Tongue | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

PLEASE DON'T GIVE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BLACK EYE BECAUSE REPORTS OF OUR HEAVY DEW SOUNDED BAD. YOU DID THIS ABOUT OUR EARTHQUAKE YEARS AGO. AS THIS IS BEING WRITTEN NOT A CLOUD IN THE SKY, THE SUN IS SHINING AND STREET IN FRONT OF PLOMB TOOL CO. IS PERFECTLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...once, Bernice stalled. Then she lacerated a telephone pole. Then, enough of this mild play, she decided, and off they went in a cloud of gear teeth, both steering wheels flapping idly, both gas pedals down to the floor. The Vagabond tactfully arranged his harem around him to form a feminine cushion in case of a crash. At once he realized he had made a blunder. Mary's Dubble-Bubble chewing gum now exploded in his face with every third or fourth stroke of her jaws, spraying him with minty mixture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...days after the report was published, the proposal to aid parochial schools had raised a small but ominous cloud. Said fiery Professor George S. Counts of Columbia's Teachers College at a convention of the Progressive Education Association in Manhattan: "I think that is a very dangerous and vicious recommendation, an entering wedge to destroy the public-school system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Glaring Inequalities | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Best skit in Washington's famed Gridiron Club show this winter was laid on cloud-bedecked Mt. Olympus (a setting borrowed from Lunt & Fontanne's successful play, Amphitryon 38). In it Mercury reported to Jupiter on the affairs of the Earth below, and Jupiter told Mercury how he ran Olympus. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Modern Mercury | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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