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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some new and possibly better development in medicine or surgery and he will spend as much time dodging professional brickbats as he will in catching the few and far between bouquets from colleagues. I know this from sad experience, having had the temerity some years back of announcing a bigger and better operation for removal of the tonsils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Commented Spain's matador from Brooklyn, famed Sidney Franklin: "Maruja Fernandez never fights anything bigger than a two-year-old calf, and Heaven help her if she ever does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Calf Love | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...world, 127 let ters of a verse from St. Luke, written by Ox Fibre Brush Co.'s president. Alfred McEwen of New York. Latest McEwen handiwork in the collection is 294 letters of the Lord's Prayer done with a one-hair brush in a space no bigger than a hole made by a needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Littlest Lot | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

While a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals was putting a crimp in old AAA last week (see above), two Virginia farmers and an Idaho philosopher in the Senate were crippling at birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture the right to bring about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Kings, Queens & Apples | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...Vizay. George Roberts, at 19 in Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school in Okmulgee, a bigger one in Tulsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After Madame | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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