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Outplayed by Notre Dame, Navy, undefeated in November for the first time in eight years, clung desperately to a three-point lead from Cutter's place-kick in the second quarter. In the last two minutes of the game, both teams scored-first Navy on a forward pass, then Notre Dame two plays later when Pilney ran the kick-off back to Navy's 23-yd. line. Navy 10, Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...wingspan of 6 ft. 1 in., a fuel capacity of 13 oz., a tiny one-cylinder Brown engine. Followed by a full-sized plane from take-off to landing she climbed 8,000 ft., glided 10 mi. in descending circles after her fuel gave out, made a neat three-point landing in a cow-pasture. Built by Maxwell Bassett, 19, of Philadelphia, winner of the Admiral Moffett and Texaco Trophies for gasoline-powered model planes, Miss Philadelphia IV will have her record certified by the National Aeronautic Association which observed her flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Model Record | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...photograph illustrating the article is of a three-point buck. To the best of the writer's knowledge it is common practice throughout the U. S. and Canada to rate a deer by one horn only and by the horn with the least number of points, if there be any difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Beam Landing | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Geneva's swank Hotel Beau Rivage. Cheerful Host MacDonald and guests representing the U. S., France, Germany and Italy, had something to celebrate. They had reached a formula for bringing Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, which the Fatherland quit last September, and they had signed a joint three-point declaration which all agreed was "extremely important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lightning Diplomacy | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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