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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the Hobgoblins future men will look. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced ahles herd-li-ka) said so at Philadelphia last week. He is Curator of the Division of Physical Anthropology of the U. S. Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. He derived his picture, conjured the Hobgoblins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophical Hobgoblins | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps the most sweeping of the proposed improvements is that whereby Rhodes Scholars may select institutions other than Oxford as their places of study. Apparently the committee has recognized the growing feeling that the relatively large number of Rhodes men at Oxford has begun to lend a definite color to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VISION AND REVISION | 4/16/1929 | See Source »

The story is as simple as life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Identical twins, born of the same egg,* are seldom reared separately. Hence Horatio Hackett Newman, professor of zoology & embryology at the University of Chicago, rejoiced last week because he had such a pair under observation: two 19-year-old girls called discreetly A and O. They were born in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two of a Kind | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

"Street Scene", by Elmer Rice, will undoubtedly be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

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