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...generations Scotchmen saw salmon swim up and down their rivers, saw small black-barred fish swim down to the sea every fall, scratched their heads without seeing any connection. One day the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeeper had a suspicion. He caught some of the small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Salmon for Cats | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...said it: that calisthenics (his profession) is a commercial exploitation of people's desires to keep fit; that people should better walk far at 4 m.p.h., play tennis and golf, swim, ride horseback, tramp, hike; that for "physical illiterates" setting up exercises are good; that his getting up exercises were better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Getting Up Exercises | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Food; and upon it he would thrive. Never was there such an opportunity as the city presented for dances and cultivating the society of nice, and what Peter found intelligent girls. From then on he rose late, read all the newspapers and current magazines to be in the swim of conversation, and trained himself for the campaign. Here was the thing, that was lasting; if you made scores of friends, they would be with you all your life and you would have obtained something durable from college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

...Self-sacrifice: " 'He can't swim. I can get him. Let go,' pleaded Commander Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...credit of the Freshmen, however, 11 more can swim, 60 less wear glasses, and 10 are color-blind, as compared to 14 Sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hygiene Figures Show Class of 1931 in Better Physical Condition Than 1932--Less Freshmen Are Color Blind | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

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