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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors of Illinois and Kansas and several generals saw Illinois turn the weak Army flank to grab Murrel's passes and spill Cagle's interference. When the Army seemed hottest Murrel aimed a short semilateral pass at Cagle. The stands screamed as an Illinois shape named Wolgast jumped between. Murrel chased him for 80 yards but missed his heels in a wild dive at the goal line. Illinois 17, Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Hottest heat was that between nimble Lady Astor and spry old Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, 65. This time the Noble Lady, 50, captured her favorite aisle seat (she lost the race last spring? TIME, July 15). This year, for the first time in the House of Commons, she was hatless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Under the title of "Paint-Brush Song" Mr. Derek Beamish (stet) yearns boozily in alternate rymeless and meterless stanzas to be as cool as brook water and as warm as seasand. The seasand is about the hottest part of this effusion and our personal suspicion is that what Mr. Beamish needs is a cold head towel and a turkish bath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS ADVOCATE SOURLY IMPERTINENT | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Street Scene. The Manhattan house is divided against itself. There are apartments on both sides of the hall, on every floor. The June day has been a scorcher ?"Hottest July fifteent' in fawty-one yizz. Yeah. Six dead in Chicago and no relief in sight, the paper says"?and Mrs. (First Floor) Florentine, Teuton wife of the Italian music teacher, is telling Mrs. (Second Floor) Jones how she "sveat all day, took a bat and sveat some more." Abraham Kaplan, also first floor, strains his eyes, moves his lips as he reads the Jewish Forward in the sultry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Unprecedented last week was a deluge of snow which spread death and destruction in Trebizond. Nineteen feet lay piled on the Gümush-Khane plain above the city while, across the mountains, Constantinople and Angora were sweltering in their hottest summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Snow | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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