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The smelt takes its name not from its peculiar cucumber-like smell but from Anglo-Saxon smeolt ("bright and shining"). It is a small, slender fish with a silvery belly and an olive-green back. Fried like a doughnut in deep fat, it is a distinct delicacy. When smelts are...
Then Captain George Fried, 60-year-old No. 1 U. S. sea hero, drafted after the Morro Castle fire in 1934 to jack up, the marine inspection service to prevent sea disasters, made a personal inspection of the fire-damaged Berengaria, refused a passenger certificate. Cunard White Star debarked its...
There, bending over inky tables, amid torn newspapers, fried egg sandwiches, smudged proof sheets and pint milk bottles full of coffee, they read morning papers for late news items and about dawn put TIME to bed.
In spite of the fact that Abraham Lincoln by his Emancipation Proclamation deprived more people of property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated...
As the blood-stained, professorial axe of mid-year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time...