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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...science department to limit their acquaintance to a year spent in some specific field. This enforced imprisonment with test tubes or telescopes or frogs not only failed to show the relationship and importance of science but made the study toilsome, instead of interesting. Not being able to see the forest for the trees, students have become dissatisfied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE-EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE | 4/13/1923 | See Source »

CALIFORNIA: A great forest fire swept over Mt. Lowe, where the famous inclined railway is situated. No damage to the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace remains in Washington furnishing information to the special Senate Committee which is investigating timber problems in the United States. He urges greater fire protection, more replanting, and partial exemption of taxes for forest areas in order to insure the nation's lumber supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Work and Overwork | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...real scene ever did look like a scene of the stage. That is true in greater or less degree whether the scene be a forest, waving like a set of green banners behind the proscenium, or a street in the Venetian ghetto of the Merchant of Venice, with every stick and stone and human being arranged with indefatigable precision by Belasco, king of realists. The spectator never can quite persuade himself that he is peeking through a chink in the fourth wall of the room, hiding behind a poison ivy vine in the woods, or bobbing about behind a wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Expressionism | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

Hiram Tyrain Hunter, of Wake Forest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY BOARDS AWARD 151 DEGREES | 3/1/1923 | See Source »

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