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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deftly, even dumbly, lie has poised on the cliff of fancy the future of the United Fruit Company. And how well Miss Fyre from the School of Dramatics While you Wait read her correspondence. To say that these schools like the great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

During his lifetime Harvard has become a national institution. It is still in the front rank of liberal thought, liberal education, and liberal religion. The seeds planted in Cambridge and Boston have borne fruit throughout the land. Dr. Frothingham was one of the great builders of the new era. He has formulated and preached the modern theory of religion not only in his own church, but also in Appleton Chapel. Twice he has served with outstanding success on the Board of Overseers during critical periods in the development of the University. Forward looking courageous, and independent builder on the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAUL REVERE FROTHINGHAM | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

Double-Cross. Following these wholesale arrests, the fruit of a year and more of sleuthing by the French police, the Spanish Government expressed its gratitude and its relief at this nipping of the plot upon French soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plot, Pounce | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Fruit flies and other insects withered under a fraction of a second's exposure, soon died. A rubber-plant leaf oozed white latex from millions of tiny punctures at one short dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cathode Rays | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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