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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer had cause to be greatly annoyed after trying the above methods without results. He then opened the current issue of TIME and upon glancing up, much to his surprise found train pulling into his station two hours distant. Toothache had vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hearst | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hearst | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...hooked up ready for the broadcasting of the execution by the Eugene V. Debs Memorial Radio Fund. In adjoining death cells Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Celestino Madeiros? were waiting for a man to slit their trouser legs, make them ready for metal strips through which would pass a current of electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Respite | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Another quirky apostrophe to the current culture appeared in last week's Christian Century. It read: "Anti-Semitic Fishermen Please Take Notice-A somewhat unusual episode in the campaign for better relations between Jews and Gentiles is the renaming of the 'Jew fish,' which hereafter is to be called the 'June fish,' at least in the New York aquarium. Jews protested that a fish 'so ugly and so named was an insult to their race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jewfish Out? | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...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 and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sperry Bright | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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