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...special counsel for the city he helped win a Supreme Court decision ordering a $20 million refund to Chicago telephone subscribers. On the side he edited an impartial digest of legislative and court decisions for utility men and their attorneys. He built a brilliant legal reputation and a $20,000-a-year practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: On the Other Side of the Moon | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...living cell. But they differ greatly in size, looks and behavior. They also show astonishing individuality. Some are round, some shaped like rods, some have tails like tadpoles. A few, almost as complicated as bacteria, which are a higher form of life, even have partial enzyme systems to help digest their food. Most viruses are rabid specialists and choosy about what they invade. Some thrive only in plants, some only in certain animals, some only in man, some only in certain tissues; e.g., the influenza virus in man can exist only in the lining of the breathing apparatus (nose, throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Wanted: A Host | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

This report was made ... to furnish a factual and critical digest of all available literature on the subject. Competent authorities agreed that this objective was well and faithfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Inventions recently registered at the U.S. Patent Office, as reported in the National Foundation for Science & Industry's Digest of New Inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...like to see what it's all about." What does dismay him is the wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since the days in the Teens when Literary Digest and Punch drew the tinkle of coin. Old-faces Crimson, Advocate, and Lampoon remain top attractions, although he confesses to selected clientele that the latter has fallen off considerably since the University's Golden Day. Education-admirer Felix, of course, does not admit to difference between the Harvard of today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

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