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...began with the harnessing of steam, points out that "the modern machine age cannot be understood except in terms of a very long and diverse preparation. The notion that a handful of British inventors suddenly made the wheels hum in the eighteenth century is too crude even to dish up as a fairy tale to children." The real machine age, which he says has been with us 1,000 years, Mumford divides into three overlapping, interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neotechnic | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

Nearly a thousand ravenous Freshmen, repairing to the Union for their noonday repast yesterday were pleased to discover that a charitable act of the Union authorities had resulted in an unusually tasty dish. Large doughnuts with applesauce were the novel delicacy which aided the Girl Scouts of Cambridge in their "Doughnut Day" charity drive. They made sales as well in the Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARITY SATES HUNGER OF 1000 RAVENOUS FRESHMEN | 5/4/1934 | See Source »

...worth $150,000. She got her ticket, she said, from her Austrian husband. William Meringer told an unlikely story of how he had come by it. Into the Bronx restaurant where he worked as chef there had walked one evening a sleek fat man who had called for a dish of hasenpfeffer, Chef Meringer's specialty.* After he had eaten three plates of it, he sent for the cook, gave him the sweepstakes ticket for a reward. Chef Meringer said he planned to send his son William to college. In Baltimore, reporters discovered a grocery store proprietor named David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liberality on Lotteries | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...sleep with her, that the youth marries the illegitimate daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

...SILVER DUST SOAP GET DISH TOWEL FREE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sight & Sound | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

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