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Really, I just can't imagine a person of high intelligence enjoying reading about slobbering pigs and rams butting fat women as reported in your MISCELLANY Department (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

Another profound fact Professor Compton discovered. Atoms are made up of a nucleus with a positive charge of electricity and one or more electrons with negative charges. The electrons (they are all the same size no matter what the element) revolve around their nucleus in a symmetrical pattern. Hydrogen, lightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Prizes | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

BLACK APRIL-Julia Peterkin- Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). A small book of sketches called Green Thursday, published three years ago, revealed Mrs. Peterkin as an interpreter of Negro peasants whose equal had not been seen since Joel Chandler Harris. Now Mrs. Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

In the intermission, the Passaic team held conference with Prof. Blood. Rooters wondered what was to come. Blood, they believed, would tell. But the last period only showed that Passaic nerves were shattered. Shoving, butting, tripping, thrusting, Passaic tried to cripple Hackensack, was many times penalized. Pashman (Passaic) rendered Fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passaic Falls | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

For ten years Harry Greb (of Pittsburgh) has been swinging wildly with his long arms, butting desperately with his head, and roughing it generally in quest of a world's title. Ever since Johnny Wilson, a second rate fighter, won the middleweight championship in 1920 Greb has been anxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wilted Wilson | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

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