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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is unpleasant; chiefly because it seems to mean nothing. The unfortunate lady, distracted during her period of repression, is driven to suicide when she tries to escape. One feels that the play is aimed to be more sensational than sensible. It verges on morbidity, and though its force cannot be denied, it seems, at best, to be spent in tilting with a windmill...

Author: By P. H. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

...should be made to insure its success. If it is not the first time in history that a diplomatic conference in to be held for the avowed codification of international law, the occasion nevertheless presents an opportunity for disinterested scholars to have their work considered in a way which cannot fail to give it influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUDSON IS CHOSEN HEAD OF LAW BODY | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

...TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) believes that the Los Angeles, once in the air, can survive far heavier storms than he permits her to rush. Perhaps, when dirigibles are enlarged, perfected, they will swim the heaviest storms that winds can blow. Helium gas, which fills the bag, will not burn, cannot explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patrol | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, suggesting to the 3,000 students that non-Christian lands had need of 100,000 physicians to deal with 1,000,000 lepers and hundreds of thousands of blind throughout the non-Christian world: "Outside of four or five cities, you cannot find 10 qualified physicians for the 10 million people in Persia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Student Volunteers | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...separated as Oregon and Texas, where goats abound. The nanny goat's business was more intimate. She "was pertly stating in type that a concern across the continent from the billy's bank was selling canned goat milk "for babies, delicate children and invalids . . . who cannot assimilate cows' milk." Her company was Meyenberg Laboratories Inc., and its home Salinas, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Milk | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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