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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The story, then, is an imaginative one, and those who have thought of going on a long-term masquerade on a big scale will do well to study it. But to this reviewer, at any rate, it was just another proof of the dictum that direction of the imagination into...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

How many days can a crew of five endure a continuous airplane flight? How many days can a motor keep the plane going? The Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Therefore John Davison Rockefeller Jr., generous donor to the 36-story Broadway Temple now being completed at Broadway and 174th Street, pleaded last week for skyscraper churches which would lift the glory of God as high as the glory of life insurance and stocks & bonds. Said he, at a banquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rockefeller Towers | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

My Man. In 1921 Fannie Brice worked into her act in the Ziegfeld Follies a Channing Pollock translation of the French tune "Mon Homme." She knew that if her man got another chance, he would go straight. "No matter what he is," she sang, "I am his . . ." and the song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

They could do little else. The influenza bacillus has never been isolated. Hence a specific cure or preventative has yet to be developed. But the nostrum men, flourishing in a medicinal half-world, made the most of last week's threat of epidemic. To the newspapers they went with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Fear | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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