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...that the total number of deaths numbered 1,157, not far from one in five. The Harvard record of one in nearly 30 draws a contrast between the meaning of the war in England and America. The cut pictured above appears in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Title Page of Recent Library Acquisition | 1/5/1927 | See Source »

...have always since early youth been an inveterate newspaper and magazine reader, but on attaining the age of understanding definite needs and capacities, dropped all such reading matter, and now depend on TIME to keep me a citizen of the world. I also read the Literary Digest (skipping current events and foreign news), for a more detailed account of the drama and certain personal notes which are very often the choice selection of the American, which magazine (the American) I do not wish to disparage, nevertheless, it is an awful dose to digest as a whole, for grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...stated authoritatively that Harvard and Boston College will not meet in competition the present college year. For the past month rumors have been current to the effect that Harvard and Boston College were soon to resume athletic relations. Although Harvard officials have refused to comment on the situation, it is understood that overtures have been made by Frank Reynolds, graduate manager of athletics at the Heights, with the view to a resumption of hockey and baseball relations this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUMOR SPIKED THAT HARVARD WILL MEET B. C. THIS YEAR | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...John N. Browning of Maysville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 13) seems to be more favorably impressed with your speed of getting news to the readers of your publication than I. I will admit that for a weekly devoting its columns to current news, TIME does wonders in getting its news out in the shortest possible time. But seven days, in this age, means much to news. There is always embarrassment for me when I am informed by friends that topics that I introduce for discussion often prove a week or two weeks old. This, I blame to TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...Louis section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Consulting Engineer Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson of the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America, described his progress in the projection of motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes to trace and transmit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Experiments | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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