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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister charged his predecessors with every sort of gross malfeasance. They had kept on the State payroll, he said, hundreds of persons now dead and some who were never born. Dolefully he admitted that it might prove temporarily impossible to meet the government payroll charges for the current month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Tender But Lovely Hope | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...depends on the fact that fluids (like blood) conduct electricity more or less easily according to their hydrogen ion concentration. But the differences in conductivity between good and bad blood are very slight. So the University of Pennsylvania researchers were obliged to amplify with radio tubes the weak current that blood can carry and invent a precision voltometer that shows 400 gradations between zero and one volt. The turning of a few switches shows the exact blood condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Indicator | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they are making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard Observatory is the station for the western hemisphere for the telegraphic distribution of current information on astronomical discoveries the service is supplemented by a series of announcement cards, distributed to the astronomical centers in America and Europe. The station was established in 1843 as an institution for original research in astronomical science and at the present time 50 men and women are associated in the work, a few of whom are students in Harvard and Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY LIBRARY CONTAINS 60,000 BOOKS, 350,000 GLASS PLATES | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...petulant stenographer's pout and a pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

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