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...officially break the record because his clutch gave out and he was unable to make the required return trip over the measured course, but Captain Eyston traveled faster than man has ever traveled on land before. He was clocked over the first leg of his course at 309.6 m.p.h. Said the 40-year-old English captain, who raises chickens as a hobby: "I just sight her along the marker line and she pretty much steers herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Records, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...head, leaving both fore feet extended in front. As the stimulus ceased, the cat lifted its left forefoot and held it up for 30 seconds. At one minute after the stimulus the left forefoot was again lifted gradually until it was held high in flexion. The foot and leg seemed sensitive to touch. The foot was gradually returned to the table but remained tense. At one minute 50 seconds after the stimulus the cat turned its head to the right and the right forefoot began lifting and appeared hypersensitive. After a short while this foot was replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors & Cats | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...hare-lip, two glass eyes, and a hook on his right arm, that I am thinking of, you are in for a bad time, as whenever he meets me he mistakes me for an old Model The once had, and tries to turn my motor over with my left leg. Fortunately for you he sees a paper rarely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...them off to police headquarters where they were booked for "Communism." They were released with alacrity. Three of them were then escorted to waiting automobiles, driven into the country, flogged, tarred, feathered and left in a swamp. One of them, Joseph A. Shoemaker, partially paralyzed, so mutilated that one leg had to be amputated, died nine days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Body & Limbs | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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