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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When he reached surface (he told his Manhattan greeters last week), his head hurt; his neck was stiff; he could not turn his head. Something was out of joint. He wrapped his powerful fingers about his neck, manipulated the bones, wrenched. There was an "audible crack" and he was "fit as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bonesetter | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Post's rival, the Scripps-Howard News, which is served by the apparently heinous United Press. The News printed two accounts, one from a United Press man and one by the Associated Press, which serves the gambling Post but whose report on the Presidents speech Publisher Bonfils had seen fit to hash, jazz, garble and publish without naming its source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mania | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...University may, if it sees fit, have any motor vehicle which is parked on University property contrary to the rules, towed to a garage and stored at the owner's expense and risk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW PARKING RULES AFFECT STUDENTS | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

...skyscraper should have a distinguished portrait in it. Clarence H. Mackay, President of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., decided Cardinal Hayes was fit subject for such a portrait, to be hung in the new Knights of Columbus club hotel, N. Y. And Sir John Lavery of London, thought Mr. Mackay, was a fit artist. Last week the commission was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cyclorama | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Then, after asserting that the primary object of a college education was to prepare the student to fit into society as an essential part of the social structure in which he lives, President Hibben showed that Harvard and Princeton were working along parallel lines to produce a body of young men who have "learned to think for themselves," tion in conduct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hibben Stresses Obligations of Nations and Individuals | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

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