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...last year's Chemical Industries Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12). The original discovery was made when a grain elevator was once blown to the top of its shaft by the spontaneous combustion of dust at the bottom. The detail to be solved before automobiles may run on chaff: a continuous, measured fuel-feed system. Many people were struck by the fact that only last week the Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio, announced a small new Diesel engine that could run with almost any oil for fuel, even buttermilk (TIME, Sept...
Cartoon. Cartoonist McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune pondered well this atrocity, drew a cartoon in which an Arrow-collared, tortoise-spectacled, straw-hatted "American Newspaper Reader" was shown winnowing the chaff of rumor from a hopper full of "Reports of the Mexican Religious Controversy." Next day the Calles Administration categorically denied that any Catholic priests whatsoever have been executed or shot down since the inception of the religious crisis...
Probably the real difficulty in considering such jobs is the fact that there has never been any standard by which to sift the wheat from the chaff and determine which jobs are good and may be undertaken by a college man without fear and with certain hope of reward, and those which should be left untouched and not even considered...
...FIRST LOOKING INTO TIME Some have traveled in the realms of gold, Even "gum-chewers' sheetlets" have we seen; From newspapers we've tried the news to glean Amid the chaff that makes the paper sold; Until at length TIME'S pages we behold. Succinct, inclusive, accurate and clean. Artist−you clarify the passing scene In crispy English, vigorous and bold! Poet−your magic fire illuminates Th' event with connotations of old time! Serene, you parry while some fool berates. Shaking accusing finger at your crime− Printing one item that he deprecates−Swearing he will...
...glad to see that your correspondent thinks the Prince would be "amused" at my first letter. I have no doubt whatever that he would be! There is often a grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff. MARY ELIZABETH ROBINN...