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...arrangement with the United States would give useful points for fixing future payments by Germany. If it were well made with sufficient elasticity it would help stabilize French exchange. In addition, it would perhaps, in response to those who represent France as the enemy of British prestige, furnish a basis for future agreement between the French and English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Obligations | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...phosgen strapped upon his back, or Robert Clay sitting in his but and slaying his enemies with electrically controlled bombing planes! Individual fighting and even retail killing may appeal to the animal instincts, artistically cloaked with Romance, but wholesale killing with up-to-date scientific equipment is unlikely to furnish many beautiful epics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE | 1/23/1924 | See Source »

...Passed a resolution proposed by Senator Ladd of North Dakota calling on Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to furnish data on the wheat futures market in Chicago as evidenced in the trading of the last two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 21, 1924 | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...father, the late Dr. Boris Sidis, eminent authority on psychopathology, decided when his son was born to give him a more intensive education than the American school, with what Dr. Boris called at the time its "discipline and routine," its "rubbish and refuse," could furnish. The boy could read and write at the age of two; at seven he passed the Harvard Medical School examinations in anatomy; at eight he could speak French, Russian, English, German, and could read Latin and Greek; at ten he entered Tufts; and at eleven he entered Harvard, graduating in 1914. He taught mathematics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Another Prodigy | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...Passed a resolution asking the Shipping Board to furnish full facts in regard to the failure of the American Bar Association and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to use American ships in sending delegations abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 14, 1924 | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

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