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Last week at No. 2320 Terrace Rd.; Des Moines, on a hillside overlooking the Raccoon River, closets and drawers were being emptied, suitcases and trunks were being packed. The stir & bustle presaged a local milestone. After 28 years during which he had won nation-wide fame as the Des Moines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Darling to Washington | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

Out of their beds tumble the firemen, over the smooth composition floor, and into the cedar-lined closets to get their uniforms. These closets are fitted with a device which turns on the lights inside when the doors are opened. And then as they rush to board the engines they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cambridge Fire Station, Opened Sunday, a Nest of Scientific Appliances Rivaling Rube Goldberg Machines | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

Humanism is what its name implies. It is concerned with man, not as a part of a monistic universe, but as a unique being, intelligent and responsible, able to discover right ways with his reason and able to follow them with his will. It is equally opposed to idealistic and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

Lynn's plague of crickets began in August. Never before had the town heard such nocturnal stridulation, never before had such hosts of shiny, self-assured intruders appeared out of floor chinks, clothes closets, rugs, pantries and cellars. Lynn's fire department, called out to purge the dump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Crickets | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Jennie Gerhardt (Sylvia Sidney) is a girl whose chief characteristic is a pathetic gratitude for small favors. It is this which causes her first mishap: a brief affair with lonely old Senator Brander who dies before he has time to marry her. To support her illegitimate daughter, Jennie gets a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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