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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than are their U. S. colleagues. The academic and the workaday are more separate there than here. Hence Sir William was obliged to exhort: "The plain truth is that modern craftsmanship, with all its noise and ugliness, is giving food, clothing, warmth and interest to millions who otherwise must die. In all honesty let us recognize that we live on craftsmanship in its modern form." The motor, aviation; chemical, electrical industries all need and use scientific research. But British factories are sluggards in their support of science; not so U. S. factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Dickie" Byrd sees the cover meant to be a "likeness"-he'll never get to the Antarctic-he'll die on the spot of chagrin for being pictured as a freshman in the university of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...tall tallyho and paraded through Camp Moore at Sea Girt, N. J. An escorting horseman let his mount sidle into one of the coach's four horses. The coach horses reared, swerved. The tallyho tipped sharply, on two wheels. Nominee Smith and friends clutched their seats. Driver Charles Die reined the horses, straightened the coach. No one was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taxi, Tallyho | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...redwood tree, solitary, centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will be, if elected, the only U. S. President of German descent in the direct line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Luft der Freiheit | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Justice, personified by three gendarmes, disinterred and rescued Widow Graf before she could die of Polish Suttee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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