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...Dole? Such pot shots at the enemy pass more or less unnoticed in Parliament, but Mr. Snowden made his own party sit up and gasp when he appeared to foreshadow a cut in the unemployment dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden & Dole | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...strewn with sawdust, and the lecture hall become a circus ring for pedagogic antics. Eminent professors at Harvard have on occasion carried their idealism so far as to request that students refrain from applause at the end of the hour, lest the educator quite humanly give way to the pot-boiling popularizer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMISSION BASIS | 1/27/1931 | See Source »

...drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look after her for a year, because she wanted to try everything at least once. '"Everything" was apparently contained in Manhattan and Harlem. Terry and Ruth took a Manhattan apartment, bought a Coffee Pot restaurant, worked in the daytime, in the evening plunged into dive after dive. Ruth kept getting Terry into trouble because she would insist on letting men kiss her or going places she had no business to go. But Terry invariably emerged triumphant from the fracas, dragging her with him. Eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Babies | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Erode, Madras, India, 45 students at the London Mission School collapsed after luncheon. Thirty of them and the school cook died in agony; 15 were in critical state. In the soup pot, physicians found a well-cooked venomous lizard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

...will walk into the new Doric pillared dining room hoping to make a deposit in the new Bank of Cambridge. But with the passing of the years when age has blended all the buildings into one symphonic mass, everyone will realize that the dining room is but the melting pot of Adams House where all the raw gold of the coast is being alloyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E PLURIBUS UNUM | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

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