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...line." A War correspondent after graduating from the Mexican border troubles, Webb Miller lived through London air raids, saw men die on the Western Front. After the Armistice, as chief of U. P.'s Paris Bureau, Webb Miller watched Poincaré, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson knock together the doomed Peace of Versailles, met Mussolini when he was still a fellow journalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Miller's Memoirs | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

There may be bad blood between the halves at the Yale Bowl today when the Crimson band takes the field. With blood in the collective eye the band sternly declares that it intends to knock the "L" out of Yale. But more than that, having knocked the "L" out of Yale the Crimson bandsmen will "sweep the field with an ever increasing "H" to gobble up a dwindling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bandsmen Intend to Knock 'L' Out of Yale Between Halves at Yale | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

...days when young people learned memory-gems, instead of knock-knocks, there was one which comes to mind today- "Judge not . . . the working of his inmost heart thou canst not see. What seems to our dim eyes a flaw may only be a scar, brought from some well fought field where we would only faint and yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Stevenson Rebutted | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Rated the country's No. 1 team by an Associated Press poll, and sure of its first undisputed Big Ten Conference title, Northwestern's Wildcats almost justified Coach LYnn Waldorf's conventional prediction: "We are hanging ripe from the bough, ready for the knock-off." Their four touchdowns against Wisconsin's underrated Badgers were just enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

This week the Paramount and Fenway offer entertainment of the pick-him-up-and-knock-him-down variety. As an antidote to the adventures of a wise-cracking radio columnist is shown a grand, old mother and son saga which is guaranteed to jerk a tear every foot...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/7/1936 | See Source »

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