Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Selfridge spoke before students of the Liverpool University School of Architecture. Said he: "I will tell you the order of the five most beautiful things in creation: A beautiful woman first, then a beautiful child, a beautiful flower, a beautiful sunset, a beautiful edifice...
...last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only at the time of bloom by the male organ in the flower. Would it not be of more importance to a journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines...
...Naval Limitations Parley (TIME, June 27), nicknamed by the Swiss "La Conference Coolidge." Nothing of a constructive nature was accomplished; but the proposals put forward by the U. S., Britain and Japan were of utmost importance; and the verbal fireworks which followed agreeably enlivened last week the annual Geneva Flower Festival...
...professors of the physics department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced last week the invention of a colorimeter which may displace human judgment in matching colors. By means of the colorimeter, the record of the color of a gown, a ribbon or even a flower can be made in Manhattan and transmitted by telegraph to San Francisco to be matched accurately...
...there was no Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more...