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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Jewish girl, stabbed to death and almost decapitated by one Osman Bey, who was enraged because the girl would not marry him, thousands of Jews paraded in Constantinople more in indignation than in sorrow. The anti-Turkish demonstration blocked the traffic for hours and attempts of police to control the turbulent crowd led to complete disorder. Numerous, violent clashes with the police led to the arrest of several scores of the manifestants and increased the ire of the Jewish community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Notes, Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Babies A La Carte. One of those stage wills decrees the fortune shall go to that one of two cousins, both ardent birth control advocates, who bears the first baby. Both ladies become flustered, flutter through stereotyped agonies, while the rest of the cast flourish jests too frayed to crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...sixth project was developed but recently by Frank E. Taplin of Cleveland, who mines coal in the Pittsburgh region. He controls the short and profitable Pittsburgh & West Virginia; wants to buy control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie, control of which John D. Rockefeller Sr. recently sold to the N. Y. C., B. & O. and Nickel Plate. Promoter Taplin would also control the Western Maryland over which he would reach tidewater with Pittsburgh coal and Great Lakes grain and iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: R.R. Re-grouping | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Since the cause and mode of transmission have not been definitely established, efforts to control the disease and prevent it have been along general lines. Disinfection is essential; antiseptic gargles are of questionable value, even probably harmful. After-treatment is of the greatest importance. If properly treated, deformities may, to a large extent, be prevented. During the acute stage, massage and exercise should not be resorted to, but the paralyzed part kept in its normal position through splints. To such orthodox treatment, Dr. Martin's serum is an experimental adjunct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infantile Paralysis | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...advantages of such a pneumatic hammer-chisel in the hands of the bone surgeon are: abundant power under perfect control; speeding without tendency of charring the bone that is being cut; accurate tooling of the bone with a minimal risk of accidental fracture; ability to operate in deep wounds through small openings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pitkin's Bone Hammer | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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