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Like the spiteful dwarf or pixie in a fairy tale, the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden made all sorts of mischief, last week, in the House of Commons. He may even have lost (or, by a strange paradox, won) the coming General Election for his party (Laborite). Insulting Frenchmen, roiling Italians, vexing U. S. statesmen and bringing tears to the eyes of His Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced...
...infant industry; a volume increase that should materially contribute to the development of the U. S. citizen into a creature with two arms and four wheels. Having produced more than 1,000,000 cars in the first three months of record-breaking 1928, the automobile industry proceeded to dwarf even this total by a first quarter 1929 production of no less than 1,500,000 cars. Thus production was stepped up from a third of a million to over half a million a month; thus a 50% increase was gratifyingly recorded; thus surprising 1928 bowed to amazing 1929. March production...
...astronomical colloquium will be held, today, at 4.15 o'clock, in Building A, of the Harvard Observatory. Miss Emma T. R. Williams will lecture on "Bobrovnikoff on Minor Planets" and Doctor Cecilia H. Payne on "Atmospheres of Giant and Dwarf Stars...
...Latvia's Keyserling the Englishman seems an "animal-man," a creature in which instinct and will dwarf brain, nay he seems "a horseman, with corresponding equine features." His most ruthless acts are forgiven and forgotten, because no one can blame an animal for its instinctive acts of acquisitive ferocity...
...statement of TIME which occasioned Dr. Tyler's letter was to the effect that compared to Abraham Lincoln, John Tyler was "historically a dwarf...