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There is, however, nothing mysterious to Signor Bendandi's forecasts. Some 30,000 quakes ruffle the earth yearly. Patient men have compiled world catalogs of recognized quakes, viz., R. Mallet's Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Forecaster Bendandi | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Biological knowledge at New Haven, it seems, is reducible to the limits of the yes and no exam. This is, of course, no reflection on the sons of Eli in their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIGHT THAT FAILED | 3/28/1931 | See Source »

Dr. Crile's experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hand-Made Life? | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

Gules three stags caboched or, Crest: at the top of a tower argent, an arm and hand vested gules, cuffed argent, holding a tilting spear sable, pointing dexter." To decipher 'one might explain that "gules" means red, "vested" designates wearing, "sable" black, "caboched" showing the full face but nothing of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architects Sink Elk Horn Theory of Dunster Crest With Flood of Heraldic Terminology--Description Baffles the Uninitiated | 11/6/1930 | See Source »

In Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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