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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...costs except for levee sites on the main stream. And the U. S. was insured only against damage claims by public utility companies which were left to stand on their constitutional rights and sue in court when the flood control work does them harm. A half-victory by the Coolidge men was the provision that for floodways the U. S. shall buy not actual acreage but "flowage rights" across the land where necessary. This provision cut untold sums from flood-control's ultimate cost, said the Coolidge men, who suspected lumber and railroad companies of plotting to sell their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flood Control | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Gaucho" will remember. Together they put romance on the map in the Balkans, and cause Warner Oland, wh plays the renegade, to lead a miserable existence. This photoplay will be forgotten before one is past the portals of the garishly gilded photoplay palace, so no harm is done...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

...regarded as a higher member of the animal kingdom psychologically as well as physiologically. On account of the greater complexity of the human brain, more types of reaction are possible but the underlying mechanics are the same. The recent work on shell shock has demonstrated what harm can arise from badly conditioned reflexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Conditioned Reflex | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...fitted out like palaces" unable to draw trade; lack of display of the Childs' name; "water should be served with meals as in the past;" "Childs should advertise;" Childs' prices were too high; the New Year's Eve (1928) $1 minimum check "did the company more harm than good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Going Vegetable-wise | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...letter, in part: ". . . Dear Mr. Shaw, life is a great and serious affair. . . . You are not sufficiently serious. . . . The questions you deal with are of such enormous importance that . . . to make them the subject of satires may easily do harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tolstoy to Shaw | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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