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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislators would swear to this section," Professor Holcombe continued, "I'd take the Oath twice a day--on getting up and on going to bed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER SEES OATH AS DEFEAT OF EDUCATION | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

...cause is not liberalism. The cause to which he is devoted is the Supreme Court, let the decisions fall where they may. If, like a good Baptist, he kneels before he goes to bed at night to pray, it is highly probable that his daily prayers include the final line of the invocation with which his court crier opens every session: "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez. . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." There is doubtless a twinkle in his eye as he says it nowadays, for he is a statesman as well as a jurist and there is ample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Big Debate | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...have his little sister and brother clamber over him. He helps his mother around the house with such tall chores ar washing windows and wiping ceilings clean of dust. Ceilings in the Wadlow home are only a fraction of an inch above the boy's blond head. His bed measures nine feet. For breakfast he eats a dozen eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another 26 bushels of potatoes along with a small stand of corn and beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydroponics | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Suffering from leg ulcers, poor blood circulation and a weak heart since last December, 79-year-old Pope Pius XI rose from bed. walked a few, unsteady steps, exclaimed: "You see. . . . Thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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