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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even if this pretender to his crown were possessed of the three years of experience that gives the Student Vagabond his store of wisdom, his plan of action defies the very fundamentals of the profession. Who ever heard of a true vagabond engaged in so unproductive an occupation as taking an examination? His mission is to receive; not to give, and the more he receives with a minimum of effort the more successful he is. What would his wanderings profit the Student Vagabond if he were to dispense such precious knowledge in so fruitless form as a bluebook? Perish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/6/1929 | See Source »

Termed dilatory by President Coolidge (see p. 9), the Interstate Commerce Commission last week roused itself, took action, decided that the New York Central R. R. might legally acquire the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Michigan Central railroads, and subsidiary lines of the two. Merger permission was conditional upon purchase by the New York Central of six short-line roads in the affected area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: N. Y. C. Merger | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Professor Carlson has found, he said, that the stomach has a rhythmic action of its own, with alternate periods of spasm or contraction, lasting a half-hour to an hour and one-half, with periods of rest be tween. Animals from the snail to man, and humans from prematurely born infants to the aged, all show the same phenomenon. It is not a nerve action. The motor nerves are not involved, although action of the sensitory nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whence Hunger | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...action, as everyone suspected, had been brewing several weeks. The resignation takes effect Sept. 1, but from June 20 Dr. Little will be granted leave of absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jobless Little | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Last week in the New York Supreme Court the action for separation brought by Richard D. Wyckoff against Mrs. Cecelia G. Wyckoff, publisher of Magazine of Wall Street was withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE PRESS: Wyckoff Suit Withdrawn | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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