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...sooner had he disappeared than the student pulled out from under his suit a duplicate control stick, which his fellow-students had advised him to take on his trip. He adjusted it carefully and came slowly down to earth, circling about the descending instructor with his right thumb pressed against his nose and his four fingers extended upward and outward, and with the smile still shining on his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Story | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Libel | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...been rumored that other great schools, including Harrow, are going to follow suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ETONIANS DESERT RUGBY AND CRICKET FOR TENNIS | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

Holding a bare length on the Juniors, the Sophomores raised from 38 to 40 and from 4 0to 45. Juniors followed suit. It looked like a sure Sophomore victory when from shore Coach Ed Brown bellowed out. "Feather yer Bullworks." Which was no sooner done than the Juniors crossed the line, winning handily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR CREW IN RECORD RUN ON CHARLES | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...studious, enquiring drift of mind, tried some of Mr. John. D. Rockefeller's newfangled Pennsylvania fluid called petroleum on the harness. It softened, unstiffened. Manufacturer Everest built a small still near his barn, made harness dressing, sold it, prospered a little, but was utterly ruined by a patent suit establishing that somebody else had previously made harness dressing in the same kind of still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gargoyle | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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