Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending...
...about the evolution of dogs, will have but to go to Yale University's Peabody Museum and examine the bones of 200 canine generations which will then be on exhibition. Specimen dogs of the 79 recognized breeds will be mounted, put side by side with their skeletons for comparison. Leon Whitney, authority on genetics, is in charge of the collection and already has skulls of the black and tan, Newfoundland, Irish Wolfhound, and entire skeletons and skins of the Cocker Spaniel, French Bulldog, bloodhound. Latest arrival was Togo, a husky serum-courier of Nome who, doddering with...
...compared with other colleges, has an extremely high mortality for the thirty-five years during which statistics were available, the important point is the rapidity with which it has been lowered with the passing of each decade. Twenty years before the turn of the century, the Harvard athlete in comparison with the average non-college man was a thirteen to ten bet to succumb to the grim reaper before the great mass of people not engaged in strenuous competition; it is now a four to five proposition that he will not attain greater longevity than the other...
...prefers understatement. When it is necessary for him to lie in vinous stupor on a couch, he forms no such abandoned arabesques with his body as did John Barrymore, who acted an adaptation of this play (Redemption) several years ago. Deliberate, warm, avoiding histrionism. the current Fedya invites comparison rather with the splendid performance given by the famed German actor Alexander Moissi during last year's visit to Manhattan...
...industrial revolution which took place about 100 years ago when the steam engine was a new invention is compared with the achievements of modern industry by the general use of electricity. Comparison is made between our water power resources and our coal deposits, and it shows that there is enough coal used yearly to build a Chinese Wall entirely around the United States. Animated drawings demonstrate the operation of a steam turbine and the generation of alternating current. The story ends with the construction of a modern electric power plant and a glance into the future of the electric power...