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...spite of arrests and imprisonments, correspondents were unable to discover the individuals directly responsible for the attempted uprising. But it was easy to guess the responsible group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Fantastic Colonel | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race in 10 sec. flat. He explained: "I guess I'm built so low the wind just didn't hit me." Then he proceeded to win the 220-yard dash also. Herman Brix, Los Angeles A. C., hurled the 8-lb. shot 67 ft. 11½ in. for the meet's only world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Century of the Century | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Untin' Bowler, partly because a hunting bowler hat is supposed to protect its wearer if he falls, and partly (said Chicagoans) because of a McCormick family joke about a child, a bowler hat and a pressing necessity. The Tribune started a prize contest, $100 for the best guess why the plane was named 'Untin' Bowler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Untin' Bowler | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...learn?and this idea would be natural to him?that M. Moreau-Vauthier is disposed to decorate with bulbous figures and cartouches, more or less baroque, guess what: the prows of our cruisers. The interior would be bad enough, but the exterior silhouet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Birdsong & Findhorn | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...words were a compound, specific form of the first, even more unprintable. All four words formed an obscene ejaculation evidently aimed at the lofty sentiments expressed in all college hymns. Amid guffaws from like-minded undergraduates and painful embarrassment for decent Harvardmen, Author Fitzhugh was expelled. Said he: "I guess I never did grow up." At the office of the Boston Herald, copies of the paper containing the poem sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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