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...chest expansion of 6½ inches. Like a majority of the Big League players, he is a small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half a barrel of wheat and then pick up two bushels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball, Midseason | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...wife have spent some time in Tahiti, investigating the origin of the Taro, the native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin. The youngest son, James Wilder, while at Harvard, introduced the Ukulele, and Hawaiian Music. He is a noted artist, and is known to every Boy Scout of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Daughter of pioneer Nebraskans, President Pyrtle is principal of the Bancroft School, Lincoln, Neb. A few years ago she took out a homestead on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in North Dakota, uses the money realized from the sale of corn crops to buy railroad tickets to educational conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Atlanta (cont.) | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...intricacies of men and motives. To answer people's questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June 17). As a creative writer, he is interested in all things vital, however irrelevant they may seem to the scheme of things orderly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Gangster | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Paris, a Mile. Louise Monpeil bade goodbye to friends, drank a "death cocktail" concocted as follows: two parts ink, one part corn remover fluid, two parts industrial alcohol, an olive. The friends gave her an emetic, reproved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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