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...Evansville, Ind., Mrs. John Benham suspected that her dog Jerry had eaten up two $5 bills. By feeding Jerry liberal amounts of castor oil she retrieved the bills in fragments, patched them together, forwarded them to the U. S. Treasury at Washington for redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...still grow the almond trees which are in blossom now ond give a gay and youthful touch to the pillars of the temples; and still the acropolis, the ancient site of the town, looks down upon the Temples of Juno, Concord (one of the most beautiful of Greek Temples), Castor and Pollux, and the sea. But now let me tell you about the little Greek village I've been searching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Oxford Letter | 4/28/1937 | See Source »

Wilbur F. Murra, of Cambridge, instructor in Education; Gerard R. Pomerat 1G, of West Springfield, Austin Teaching Fellow in Biology; John G. B. Castor 2G, of Albany, New York, David L. McVickar 2G, of Combridge, Bradford B. Owen 1G, of Berea, Ohio, Robert C. Stauffer 1G, of Minneapolis, assistants in Biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVENTEEN MEN NAMED FOR APPOINTMENTS TO FACULTY NEXT AUTUMN | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags, their eyes with castor oil, and hurled machine parts and small containers of acid at the tower. Inventor of the tower was a former professor of English at the University of Illinois, now a Fansteel attorney. Remembering the battle towers used in ancient siege operations he designed it, but with bad scholarship dubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sit-Downs Sat On | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Count Francisco Matarazzo, 86, "Brazil's richest man," Italian-born Sao Paulo industrialist; after brief illness; in Rio de Janeiro. The Matarazzo United Industries produce rice, starch, rayon, cotton, liquor, fish oil, fish meal, lipstick, face powder, sugar, motion pictures, vegetable oils, linseed oil, iron and aluminum products, castor oil, coffee, flour...

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

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