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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Dec. 13, (p. 20, ART), you gave a list of the largest buildings in the United States. I would like to say that here, right here in Cincinnati, is a building, namely the Union Central Life Insurance Building, which is 34 stories and 495 feet above street level. It belongs in the list more than the Straus, Tribune or Wrigley Buildings as it tops the tallest by at least 20 feet. Please apologize for this omission. You know how one roots for his home town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...named, proved almost impossible for observations during the rainy season from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice. for although a station at Pampa Central, on the desort of Altacama in Chile, seemed to possess somewhat better climatic conditions, the living conditions were practically impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MOVES TO SOUTH AFRICA | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

...reason by simply opposing steadfast faith to inquisitive logic. But Dr. Straton's dogma is not merely steadfast; it is wild and violent. His answers to reasonable inquiry would irritate a St. Francis of Assisi. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, mild-mannered pastor of the Central Congregational Church, was in the audience. Startled by the Northerner's tone and manner, Dr. Dodge ventured a question on Dr. Straton's interpretation of evolution. Dr. Straton's reply was as the bolt of a self-appointed God of vengeance. Nettled, Dr. Dodge asked another question. Again the reply was bitter. Dr. Dodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hint | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...longer be defended on the simple grounds that it provides students with a means of physical development and that it brings fame and sometimes riches to the institutions in which the game is played. It can no longer be condemned as an enemy to what is considered the central aim-of educational institutions: the pursuit of learning, and the investigations of science. It has become the aid of the ally of science. It has added to its public of the cheering section the readers of the scientific journals. And since broadening one's point of view is considered a chief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE COMMON GOOD | 12/18/1926 | See Source »

...home for the holidays. This train of the Boston and Maine Railroad stops at Cambridge in Porter Square daily at 3.07 o'clock in the afternoon, thus obviating the necessity of the trip to Boston. The "Minute Man" is associated with the "Lake Shore Limited" of the New York Central Lines, in each direction, and leaves LaSalle Street Station, Chicago, for Cambridge at 5.30 o'clock daily. A club car is available throughout the journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Westerners Use "Minute Man" | 12/16/1926 | See Source »

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