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» Farmall is lopsided, with its engine crowded over to its left front wheel, its seat close to its right rear wheel so that the driver can look down directly on the ground he is working.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Cockeyed Youngster | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Lopsided as were the military odds, the invasion of China has been no mediocre war like the conquest of Ethiopia. The number of men engaged was more than twice that of the late Civil War in Spain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

As director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Incubator | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Parent of all the racquet games is court tennis, which Nausicaa and her maidens reputedly played by batting a ball with their hands. For the last 700 years it has been played with a lopsided, gut-strung racquet that looks as if it might have been left out in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Winning seven out of eight matches, the Varsity grapplers outclassed M. I. T. last Tuesday to win by a lopsided 25 to 3 count. Tech's only points came from Power's decision over Bill Tyng, who was wrestling his second varsity bout.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN SMOTHER TECH WITH 25 TO 3 BARRAGE | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

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