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...robot has not yet come, but H. G. Wells sees it approaching along with the complete domination of the business men. So educators hasten to justify their product to the new monarchs by pointing out civilization's debt for the truths discovered by scientists, and the progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...amid hysterical excitement in the court, calmly put their hands into the hat and withdrew their ballot, stoical resignation imprinted upon their features. Twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Jauregui, youngest of the quartet, blanched-he drew the black ballot. Fiercely protesting his innocence, he called upon the court to hasten his execution by a firing squad, saying that he would not appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Black Ballot | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...weapon employed by the Patrol to hasten the end of an iceberg's life. If the berg has a ledge upon which a man may land, a hole is chopped with an ice axe and the charge with a time-fuse attached, is deposited

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law Student Tells of Experiences With Icebergs | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...That the Preparatory Disarmament Commission be urged to hasten the conclusion of its technical work in order that the Council may summon a general conference on limitation of armaments as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Assembly Ends | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Fourth day. Another 500 miles was behind the Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Around-the-World | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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