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...corners is at Main & Strong Streets. There in a two-story brick building is Farmers State Bank. In the back of the same building the Adams County Republican is published weekly. President of the bank is Herman Schloo, onetime cattle trader. L. D. Kranbeck, the butcher, and W. W. Gaunt, the lawyer, are directors. So is Elmer Jennerich who clerks in the hardware store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: American Tragedies | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...York and on the road, provoked no violent animosity from the group satirized, Paramount has found courage to label the characters. Fredric March imitates John Barrymore and tries to look as much like him as possible without conspicuous makeup. Ina Claire reflects many of the favorite intonations of gaunt Sister Ethel. The playing of these two is better than the playing of the original principals in the same parts, and since the minor parts also are almost perfectly cast and the whole piece is smartly directed by Cyril Gardner and George Cukor, The Royal Family of Broadway takes rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

...Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great gaunt statue of Abraham Lincoln was erected in Manchester, England, to celebrate a century of British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged collection of Gothic sculpture and woodcarving which Sculptor Barnard had assembled. Mr. Rockefeller presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arch Man | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...doctor examined the gaunt old man. He knew something of his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: End of an Idealist | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

Into the learned debate of the Institute for Administrative Officers of Institutions of Higher Learning, held last week at the University of Chicago, came a gaunt pedantic spectre: the Graduate School, by which all prospective teachers must be passed. Formal and informal discussion centred in substance on the thesis: "What can improve Graduate Schools?" Said Professor Frederic Campbell Woodward, Dean of the Faculties and Vice President of the University of Chicago: "There is ample reason to fear that the members of graduate faculties, in large numbers, are still either unaware of the demand [for improvement] or satisfied that nothing sho.uld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher-Teaching | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

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