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Dates: during 1920-1929
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". . . . [However] I have observed with great satisfaction the distinguished character and ability of the representatives of the Latin-American republics who have been accredited to the government at Washington."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pan-A mericana | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

"We believe that New England, like the other sections of our country, has had in the past a well-defined provincial culture, and has made a distinctive contribution to American life, character and civilization. A quarterly journal, including within its scope the literary, social and economic history of New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE PROFESSORS ESTABLISH NOVEL TYPE OF MAGAZINE | 2/2/1928 | See Source »

These are four branches of Astrology: Natural, having to do with the efect of the planets on earthly climate, quakes, floods; Mundane, concerning prosperity, plagues, wars; Natal, how the arrangement of the stars at the moment of birth determines a person's character, physique, life work; Horary, concerning the propitiousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Mrs. Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eugenic Child | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

"The college curriculum should be divided into two parts. The freshman and sophomore years should form a junior college and lead to the regular baccalaureate degree, and the senior college, composed of the junior and senior years, should lead to a Master's degree." Thus Professor Mather of Princeton in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REDUCING THE OVERHEAD | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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