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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Howard's surmise (about the salutations) is correct. A recent letter, for instance, began "Dear Buttercup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...correct a statement in Thursday morning's Crimson to the effect that Professor Harold J. Laski left Harvard under pressure following the Sacco-Vanzetti case? Laski was called to London in 1920, some time before the Sacco-Vanzetti case reached the headlines. Such "pressure" as may have hastened his departure was a result of his activities in the Boston police strike, in the autumn...

Author: By G. L. Haskins, | Title: THE MAIL | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

Underlining the right answers to questions composes the major portion of the written grilling. Students in biological sciences should know of what does the placenta not permit free passage from mother to foetus. The sample test shows "blood corpuscles" underlined as the correct answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Students Are Subjected To Aptitude Tests Before Specializing | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...holes along the edges enable the operator to pick out immediately and in correct order all cards for overdue books on nay particular day. For this purpose all the cards that come in during the day are stacked together and put in a press which cuts a notch in the hole corresponding to that day, after which the cards are filed in the record. Then on the days when books fall due, only three times a week this year, an operator goes through the files with a long "darning needle." He thrusts this through the holes for that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener's New Filing System Makes Card Speed-up Possible | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

Prediction. For many months, the Inquirer's correct forecasts of Pennsylvania judicial decisions had aroused the envious indignation of its less astute competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Annenberg Annals | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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