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...Tarnation, it wasn't ready yet!", said an annoyed Undergraduate yesterday noon when informed that his plan for having free beer flow from the pump in front of Hollis Hall had been exposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beer Flows From Old Pump, But Not Enough to Quench Everybody's Thirst | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

Food and drink excepted, the only non-green object to retain its true color is the red-and-yellow Shell miniature gasoline pump through which cigaret-lighter fluid is dispensed. The fluid, alas! has succumbed to the mania of the "Man in Green" (so named by Believe-It-Or-Not Ripley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Portentous was his budget in 1933 cutting Government expenses by $360,000,000, his budget in 1934 proposing to spend $10,000,000,000 for priming the pump, his budget in 1935 asking a lump sum of $4,000,000,000 for him to spend as he wished on Relief, his budget in 1936 when he proclaimed, "Our policy is succeeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: 35 Billion 26 Million | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen blanket will never be known. Aaron Handler died silently of burns, shock and heart failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fatal Gases | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Exhibited at the National Hotel Exposition in Manhattan were an automatic device for detecting bogus money and bad checks, a pump apparatus for dealing with flooded bathrooms, a meat-softening substance called tendra which is extracted from a South Sea Island plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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