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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died: Mine. Ben Nishimoto, 103, Kyushu Island, Japan. Her funeral was attended by 93 of her direct descendants; five children, 19 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren, 12 great-great-grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...board--to drag them into a psychological test would only prove that he had not "the brains he was born with". Nor is the graduate better served. Experience, practice in practical affairs, greater maturity get him no more than a gentlemanly "satisfactory" when he competes with his children or grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASK DAD | 2/15/1923 | See Source »

...encouraging to learn that the best inventive minds are going to solve the few remaining elements of the problem of how to get around without the use of legs. What our grandchildren are going to do with their legs we are not sure. Certainly they will be an encumbrance, and it will take more than two generations of evolution to dispense with them. Perhaps they will all cover them up and pretend they have none, as women used to do. --The Portland Oregonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/10/1922 | See Source »

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