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King George drew Guest Gandhi into the royal study. There the King-Emperor took a dish of tea, the Mahatma sucked in a bowl of goat's milk sent up from the palace kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King's Questions, Mahatma's Answers | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Uranus continued "perturbed." From this perturbation, last week, came the prognostication of yet another planet, a vast, unseen but potent presence in the outer heavens. Astronomers are cautious about premature predictions but at Mandeville, Jamaica, goat-bearded Professor Pickering, 73, felt sure that he had isolated still another member of the solar system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planet P? | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Meanwhile in the English Dairy Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall the benign nanny goat that provides Mahatma Gandhi with his goat's milk defeated all comers in her class, had a blue ribbon hung about her scrawny neck and was officially named "Mahatma." Chief concrete result of the human Mahatma's visit is that in London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Gandhi's Goat | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...true that goat's milk, much richer than cow's milk, has small fat globules more evenly distributed throughout its 84.14% of water. But some of the cream, taking longer than cow's cream, will rise to be skimmed. The rest of the butterfat can be obtained by use of a mechanical separator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...help him. Speedily Lawyer Tarlow obtained a rehearing of Mrs. Hanna's case. Three physicians questioned her. They found her illiterate, but discovered that she knew that a match touched to wood makes it burn; that a handkerchief is used to "blow the nose"; that leather comes from "goat, cow, sheep"; that her bus fare to the courthouse was 10?; that three bus fares would be 30?. Asked where she went to pray, she replied: "Church." To whom did she pray? "God." How many Gods are there? "One." She readily identified the U. S. flag but could not tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Friendly Test | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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