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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world nothing stands still. All moves; all changes. There are no straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Goldman Sachs, formed last December, sold its first stock offering at 104. It was quoted even at the end of last week's market break at 222¼. Its capital and surplus six weeks ago was $100,000,000. Last week it was $122,000,000. As $15,776,000 of the $22,000,000 increment resulted from stock sales, there remained an additional $6,224,000 presumably representing trading profits of about a million per week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Again, Billion | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago team for which "Pop" Anson and Evangelist Billy Sunday played. It was Spalding's Chicago team which first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spalding's company which standardized early baseballs and developed the modern baseball bat with the pronounced bulge in its business end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spalding | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...first quarter of the contest was loosely played and at the end of it each team had piled up 12 points. Hebron depended on a fast offense, laying little stress on its defense; consequently Harvard had jumped into a six point lead when the whistle blew for the intermission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN WEEKEND SPORT SUMMARIES | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...stated that the construction of the new steel stands at the open end of the Stadium would probably necessitate the removal of the cage, but that it would under no circumstances be destroyed. He said that Harvard was in greater need of facilities for indoor sports than outdoor playing fields and that, because of this, the cage would be dismanteled and removed to another part of Soldiers Field. The cage was built in 1897 and is still in constant use in spite of the construction of the new Briggs cage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD BASEBALL CAGE WILL BE MOVED, SAYS BINGHAM | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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