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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...make them almost twins. Teapot Dome, however, resulted from a collaboration between onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair, oilman; Elk Hills proceeded from an association between Mr. Fall and Edward L. Doheny, also an oilman. So they have constituted two distinct, though parallel cases which in 1923 spread a sticky mess over the Harding Administration and cheered many Democrats with the happy thought that the next President would be chosen from the Democratic party. But with the death of President Harding and the advent of President Coolidge the oil scandals slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Paired Again | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...shrouded lights which failed to guide Commander Richard Byrd to Le Bourget flying field would have been plainly visible had they been of the type recently invented. A row of these new lights would have been discernible for 20 miles as small but distinct red buttons, even through the heaviest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fog Lights | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Citizens of almost every European state experienced last week distinct repercussions from the murder of Soviet Minister to Poland Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov at Warsaw (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: International Repercussions | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

World Quart. Although the A.S.T.M. is engaged in standardizing specifications for materials used industrially and has set up 497 distinct standards, at the French Lick meeting they did nothing about establishing a world quart, about applying the metric system of weights & measures to all U. S. uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Testers' 25th | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

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