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...office on her adjustable exercise machine (see cut}. It is adjustable so that Mrs. Garner can also get a work-out sitting down, or lying on her back. "I am handicapped," explained she, "because I can't take off my dress in my office. I just pin up my skirt and shut the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Most meteors or "shooting stars" are no bigger than a pin-head or at most a golf ball. Their great light energy is generated by the terrific speeds at which they hit the earth's atmosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

...proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that goes into engraving the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Some bowling enthusiasts are known to have nightmares wherein they roll small balls which can knock down only one pin at a time, and no sooner are successive single pins knocked down than they bounce up again. Somewhat similar nightmares are said to be troubling Japanese generals, who bowl over Chinese towns one by one, only to have the Chinese seep in behind their advance and set them up again. Last week Japanese announced they had captured coastal Haichow (pronounced Hi, Joe) and Lungkow (Loong-Go), last Chinese-held ports north of Shanghai, and two inland Shantung towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Hi, Joe | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...pound class, Captain Harvey Ross was outwrestled by Lehigh's stellar Oless, who has been wrestling at 128 for most of the season. However, Bill Daughaday came through with a spectacular pin over Matheson of Syracuse. Boston lived up to the best of hopes with his fall over Harrison of Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Scores Only Two Wins in First Round Of Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

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