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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officials will be easily distinguishable upon the field of play. R. U. M. Whortleberry, graduate student in the Cornell School of Dentistry, who is an expert at the noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

...other cities. For an old lawyer, grown fat with riches gathered beside the Charles, has said within the hearing of Mr. Sinclair: "Hang onto your money. Nobody respects anything else. . . ." "Harvard and State Street and Beacon Hill had taught him that attitude," adds Mr. Sinclair, who is an expert at qualitative analysis. And Max Keezor agreed, with a respectful pull at his forelock, "Aye, a little learning do be a dangerous thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPTON, READ DOWN | 4/25/1928 | See Source »

Secretary Wilbur had asked the Court to reconsider its verdict of "unfit" on Admiral Brumby. Given an opportunity to explain himself, Admiral Brumby redescribed his conduct and Secretary Wilbur found it entirely "commendable." In the main, Admiral Brumby seemed to have conferred intelligently with his more technically expert subordinates and ordered what all agreed was best, including the delay in attaching airlines to the wreck's "ears." Moreover, said Secretary Wilbur, the Brumby record of 31 years in the Navy was so splendid as to overcome whatever "errors or oversight or failures" could be justly charged against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S-4, Finis | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Director of Agro-Joint is gray-haired and twinkling-eyed Dr. Joseph A, Rosen, a Russian-born agricultural expert who migrated to the U. S. but went. back to Russia after the War to assist the famine relief conducted by omnipresent Herbert Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jew Farmers | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Bishop Furse need have no fear of his bathtub scenes being flashed on New York screens, unless he wishes to install a television sending apparatus in his bathroom and engage expert operators; unless he deliberately commands that the bathing scene be transmitted through the ether. Incidently, at present stage of development, the apparatus takes up more room than a piano, costs more thar 20 pianos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bathtub Bishop | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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