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Said Critic Lawrence Gilman of the New York Herald Tribune: "The whole of it is vital and dis- tinguished music, but the slow movements, the largo, is not only an exquisite piece of writing, but it is charged with a depth of feeling, a poetic beauty, a musing, tenderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: K. P. E. Bach | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

Cancer causes one-tenth of all deaths among grown-ups in the U. S. Yearly from 100,000 to 125,000 people die here from this dis ease. It presents itself in four main ways: 1) epithelial, in which there is no rodlike framework; 2) scirrhous or hard, in which the framework predominates and the tumor is hard and of slow growth; 3) encephaloid or soft, in which the cellular element predominates and the tumor is soft, grows rapidly and often ulcerates; and 4) colloid, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three are also called carcinoma. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Cancer | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

Briand scowled upon the Chamber in offended reproof: "I am dis- appointed. In this terrible situation your meagre alms of six votes is no encouragement. But it is five more than I need! With one I would have carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Desperate Battle | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...dissemination of tuberculosis from cattle. A number of American cities have shown that it is possible to insist on milk from tuberculin-tested herds, with the result that herds in their vicinity are relatively free from the disease, as compared with the mass infection of cattle in the Illinois Dis- trict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McHenry County | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed to Jezebel, offering her Jehu Sennacherib Dyle in holy matrimony. Jezebel, though coy, finally decided: "I no mind livin' wid yo' here in dis house. But de marryin', it can come later on." Dyle reluctantly agreed looking forward to the day when she would make him "a legitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Barbadoes Gentleman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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