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...Only two hits were scored which damaged the rusty freighter hardly at all. The Mt. Shasta still rode high on a calm sea. Two Coast Guard cutters thereupon went alongside, spent two hours firing one-pounders pointblank into her below the water line. At last she filled with water, sank in 150 fathoms. The Navy's mocking grin at the Army's aerial coast defense was broader than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bombers v. Mt. Shasta | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Soon, by a series of forward jerks, the cobra shoved its jaws over the heads of the other two snakes. Its fangs sank home, its venom flowed, the adder and the schaapstecker went limp and helpless. Then slowly down the cobra's jerking, gullet passed frog, snakes and all. proving that in the snake world, victory is to him whose mouth holds most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Goodnight Buffaloes | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...After a little more conversation, I, thinking that if a murder had been committed, he was the murderer, put to shore to telephone the sheriff's department, believing that the boat would last for another hour or so. I had. however, barely reached shore when the boat sank. Almost immediately we saw the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Crawford approaching the scene of the disaster, which lowered a boat and picked up the floating wreckage, and from the Coast Guard we learned that this man. whose name was Frank (last name unknown) and who was a fisherman, had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1931 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...afternoon, Hagen played his second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball a yard from the cup, made a birdie four. After holding a lead of now one and now two strokes. Hagen dropped the fifteenth and sixteenth, where Alliss sank a 30-ft. putt, and they came to the seventeenth all even. Alliss thereupon sliced his drive to take a par four while Hagen drove straight down the fairway, approached well, quickly sank his putt. The last hole was halved. Hagen's total score: 423; Alliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Canadian Open | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily, for the birdie and a 292 to match Burke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inverness | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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