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That the brilliant red blood in the arteries is exactly the same as the dark blue blood of the veins, the difference in color being due to difference in gas content. That there is no to and fro undulation, but a constant circuit of blood from the heart, through the distant parts of the body, back to the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Back Talk. "When I knocked on the [hotel] door, a somewhat impatient voice bade me enter. I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chair Talk, Back Talk | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Chicago, harvest hand out West, sailor to Honolulu, janitor to mayors of two towns, hand on Mississippi delta, thief cooped in an occasional jail, miner in West Virginia, song-leader in many a construction camp, cook to a Peoria golf club, waiter and porter on trains shuttling to and fro-in short, adept at any job which offers food and money enough for catbone dice and women: "one high yellow and two teasin' browns" among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...family of control of the Lloyd Triestino Puglia Line, the Maritime Italiana Line and one of the two largest shipyards in Italy. This acquisition makes the Cosulich Line the largest Italian shipping firm, with a fleet of 105 ocean-going vessels, aggregating 460,000 gross tons, operating to and fro between Italy and North America, South America, the Near East, Egypt, India, Japan, and China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mergers, Acquisition | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...electro-magnet fields within his box. The precision with which he built his contrivance permitted him to extract, not amateur squeals, but harmonious musical sounds. (Gestures with his left hand about the horizontal ring were the equivalent of turning the amplifying knob of a receiving set to & fro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toy | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

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