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...your anticipation is over; the future has become the present. This is why your rib felt like it was cracked last week. It's why you sweated and studied and dreamed. It is the dust and monotony of a practice field. It is the soggy, moldy smell of the locker room. And remember, that ball is coming down now. Ahead are eleven men in Green who will try to stop one man, but ten men in Crimson will help that one man. They are your friends. You've seen them a million times--in joy, in pain; as stars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

Popular eating place of many Undergraduates, who are there able to charge food and beer on their term bills, the use of the Grill has caused much trouble in Eliot House, it was explained. Of these noise, smell and general disturbances were rated as the most important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Soon Be Closed Due to Complaints | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...boilers flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away to a naked debutante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trick Hurricane | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Duchess Dumpy San José is a sturdy black mongrel (Doberman pinscher & Irish setter) bitch belonging to Horticulturist Harvey C. Stiles. About a month ago, Mrs. Stiles held a dollar bill out to Dumpy and said, "Doesn't that smell nice?" Few days later, Dumpy turned up carrying in her mouth a dollar bill, which she pressed on her mistress. Next day she brought home another dollar. Each day for the following fortnight Dumpy brought home a dollar a day, never more, never less. Some of the bills were old-issue, large-sized dollars, most were current certificates. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Treasure Hunt | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...clean; the vernix [film covering the newborn] has disappeared! Unless one has witnessed the phenomenon, this miracle does not seem possible. It would appear that if this greasy, slimy, newborn infant, who looks as if he had been rescued from a sewer, were not immediately cleaned up, he would smell like a dead fish in 24 hours. What a contrast to behold him a few hours later looking fresh and clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Small Unwashed | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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