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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely beyond our control. Without going into an elaborate discussion of the inheritance of parental traits, we may very well turn to the experience of animal breeders, for example, those who raise mules. The diet of the equine mother differs considerably in various parts of the country, but the custom of breeding jacks to mares rather than stallions to jennets is universal, the stallion's colt is always too large for the jennet to bring into the world alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Baby | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...very magnitude of the subject has obscured it. Its ramifications, social, political and economic are such that the taxpayer has been willing to resign the subject to the experts and foot the bill more or less graciously. Such has been the custom until recently. But it is one of the items on the credit side of the depression that it has produced a radical change in this attitude. Whether he wants to or not, the citizen today must be interested in economic questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LESSONS IN ECONOMICS | 1/6/1932 | See Source »

...explosion commemorating the birth of champagne covers your cut and was held March 7, 1931, at which 104 were present and the two of your cut: Robert T. Pell (right), and friend (correct) is Sydney R. Clarke, recording secretary of the T. N. T., and, as is the custom of the T. N. T., a baby member is fittingly decorated (baby cap and ribbon with nipple attached around neck) at the first meeting after his election, which happened upon this eventful explosion. Robert Pell was responding to his toast "Our Baby Member" when picture was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...good time was had by all, and Robert- as is his custom-graced the occasion perfectly, and every one of our 150 members was proud of our baby member that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...musical score, in Vassar's Experimental Theatre. The Greek department assisted; students who took part will be given degree credits. Dr. MacCracken, English scholar and professor, pointed out that many early English plays were written and performed in English schools. Said he: "We are but following the English custom in this, for it was an Eton headmaster, Nicholas Udal, who wrote the first English comedy extant, Roister Doister, four centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Thesis & Theseus | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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