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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Samuel Insull had acquired a half block amid bleak, uncouth warehouses facing the grimy waters, where he intends to make rise the $7,500,000 monumental abode of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and create a midWest music Mecca. Perhaps Mr. Insull's plan is a lusty answer to the Babylo-American style skyscraper which Otto Hermann Kahn is now erecting for the Metropolitan Opera among the tenements and speakeasies which creep up to 56th and 57th Streets at 8th and 9th Avenues, in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tsar | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...answer to your request to be informed of the particular style of dieting the, students which would be approved by the visitors of the University, I can only say that, the University not being yet in action, nor the Hotels for boarding houses in readiness which will be at their disposal, no style of dieting has been agreed upon: but if I may form a judgment from the conversations we have had on the subject, I think something like the following course will meet their approbation...

Author: By Th. Jefferson., | Title: Thomas Jefferson Framed Healthy Bill of Fare for Embryonic University of Virginia--No Stimulants for Young Stomachs | 11/26/1926 | See Source »

...couple is chosen from each of the competing clubs in the finals to present the argument and answer the opponents. W. C. Carter 3L. and R. K. Chase 3L. will argue for the Scott Club on January 14, and W. D. Gallagher Jr. 3L. and J. W. Averitt 2nd 3L. will present the Smith Club case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOTT AND SMITH LAW CLUBS WIN WAY INTO AMES FINALS | 11/24/1926 | See Source »

...commonplaceness of a mechanic expounding the ignition of a Ford? Would the result be completely good? Can the little boy who is a "radio bug"± be assumed to grow up quite naturally into an adolescent "sex bug," equally without necessity of shame? An attempt was made to answer these questions in the affirmative by a new publication, Your Body, which appeared on the news stands last week, price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unsexing Sex | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...biologic detail cost Darwin dear (suggests Author Bradford) in other fields of interest: in literature, history, politics; in esthetic enjoyment of nature; in religion. Some Catholics asked him what he was. "A sort of a Christian," he said. Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded, this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition." He avoided cosmic thoughts, kept his writing purposely free from Pantheism, stuck to his species and specimens and "let God go" as imponderable. The Lover of mankind was his second greatest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Saint Darwin | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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