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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to do neither one may find pleasure in admiring the type in which the magazine is set, and everyone can look at if not revel in the Manet-like art which in contained in the present issue. At any rate the fires on Montparnasse are leaping higher since the advent of a Rockwell Kent Hound and a safely modulated Horn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HATH DRUNK HIS FILL | 9/27/1927 | See Source »

...this ill-advised libel of the greatest of all indoor sports, and a sport which is participated in by millions, most of them of a high type citizenship. In fact, we are prepared to prove that no sport on such a large scale has for its participants any higher type of men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...toward fulfilment of the reading requirement: (1) of French, a C in French 1 or a D in French 2 or any other whole course in French literature higher than French 1: (2) of German, a C in German 1a, 1b, or 1c, or a D in any whole course in German literature higher than the above, and (3) of Latin, by a C in Latin A, or a D in any other whole course in Latin literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN ELUCIDATES A FRESHMAN HYDRA | 9/23/1927 | See Source »

Time was when the greatest praise which could be bestowed upon an institution of higher learning was to compare it favorably with the New England college and to predict a maintenance, in its students and graduates, of the New England hierarchy. Harvard, however, although sprung directly from New England soil and built up in her youth by New England zeal and vision, may be said to have widened her horizons until now, in the two hundred and ninety-first year of her existence she is recognized to be so representative of the United States in her enrollment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITHOUT LIMIT | 9/23/1927 | See Source »

Fuel Acids. Chemist H. C. Mougy of the General Motors research staff pointed out that the U. S. oil industry could save 50 millions per annum in refining costs if motor designers could safeguard motors against fuels containing a higher percentage of sulphur than is now left in good grade gasoline. Motor designers aim to protect motors from sulphuric acid corrosion by eliminating condensation of the water vapor from burning fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Detroit | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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