Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excerpts: Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow, I love creation better as it stood That day you finished it so long ago And looked upon your work and called it good. I know that others find you in the light That's sifted down through tinted window panes, And yet I seem to feel you near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight of the plains. I thank you, Lord, that I am placed so well, That you have made my freedom so complete ; That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell...
...Bolton, noted psychologist of Temple University (Philadelphia). "The male figure is decidedly more decorative than the female figure," he continued, "thus proving that the male is a better biological specimen than the female. Throughout all the ages the form of the man has been more frequently used for the creation of things of beauty than the female figure...
...opened last week at the University of Virginia (see p. 24). Thereafter the searchlight, hugest in the world, would be at the service of Virginia physicists and of night flyers between Boston and New Orleans. Differing from bright predecessors only in size, the monster Monticello searchlight is the latest creation of Elmer Ambrose Sperry, inventor of gyroscopes, gyro-compasses, stabilizers, searchlights (TIME, March 30, 1925, Nov. 1, 1926). At Scott Field, Ill., there is a Sperry light which airmen have seen 150 miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large...
This bill is a stupendous elaboration of the Administration's bygone bills for lending money to cooperative farmers. It provides for the creation of a Federal Farm Board of three members, with advisory councils. These men will establish commodity stabilization corporations?one for each important crop. The Government will lend $250,-000,000 to these corporations, so that they may purchase crops in the open market during periods of depression. To cooperative farming associations, the Government will lend $25,000,000 to buy equipment, warehouses, etc.; $25,000,000 for operating expenses...
...Marconi Co. of London last week announced a new creation by Captain Round, one of its engineer-employes. It was a benefit to blindness?a process by which a full-length novel can be recorded on six double-faced, twelve-inch phonograph records. Each record "reads aloud" some 5,000 words, lasting 40 minutes. The blind audience can "turn back" should it drop off to sleep during a dull chapter, or should the reading go too swiftly during a delectable passage...