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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Crack (Warner). A fairly successful effort has been made to bring speed and glitter to this costume romance. It has all been expertly tailored for John Barrymore's profile, for his bark, his meditative scowl, his glance of an amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Samuel Insull of Chicago, potent public utilitarian, in an address before several hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Thomas Alva Edison in a fringed muffler, Mrs. Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goldenrod Rubber | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

The extensibility of rubber is usually confused with its elasticity. Rubber is one of the most inelastic of substances. An absolutely elastic substance is one which returns to its original size and shape after stretching. Rubber does not do that. Pull a piece of rubber, release it, measure it. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goldenrod Rubber | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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