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Patriots boiled, not at politely perspicacious Ornithologist Knight, but at poetically licentious Hermon MacNeil, designer of the eagle which has been stamped on U. S. quarter-dollars since 1916. "Feet of a duck!" patriots muttered. "Designer MacNeil should be shown a flying eagle and made to try again!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Feet of a Duck | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

On Wednesday night a pleading, cheering, imploring mob of Harvard students filled the Union, chanting "Beat the Princetonian baseball team." To Coach Field's exhortation, in that moment when he silenced the pandemonium with an uplifted hand and said quietly, "Fellows, England expects every man to do his duty," it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY | 5/12/1928 | See Source »

Water v. Wine. Concerning the 18th Amendment Dr. William James Mayo of Rochester, Minn., said: "It is assumed that the drinking of spirituous and fermented liquors is due to an evil inborn longing to be stamped out only by the exercise of individual self-control. Is this true?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atoms, Drugs, Wines | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Suddenly came a boom, a roar, and the Square of Julius Caesar trembled as if a giant had stamped. Clouds of dust surged up over the crowd and cloaked for an instant the awful tragedy which had occurred. A bomb, planted in the base of the lamp post had exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fatal Lamp Post | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Publishers and mail-order men applauded the House last week for passing, 220 to 0, a measure calculated to save them some $13,585,000 per annum in postage stamps. It was the long-awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stamp Slash | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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