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Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYWALKING OUTLAWED | 10/10/1928 | See Source »

...like. They, sooner than others, must fight it. Blunt professionals, they demand serviceable instruments with which to do their duty when it becomes necessary. Permanent public servants, their philosophy is at bottom the working philosophy of the U. S. Navy, no matter how Congresses and Administrations help or hinder its expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Waging Peace | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...adenoidal person is easily recognized. His mouth is usually open, because the adenoids hinder nose breathing, his facial expression is vacant, his breathing noisy, his hearing more or less impaired. He usually has a hacking cough, a peculiar muffling of the voice, and enlarged tonsils. Because inhaled air is not filtered through the nose, germs enter the throat, the lungs. Tuberculosis is a frequent result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Italian Adenoids | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Trade Continued. Ironical was the fact that Premier Baldwin and his Ministers kept repeating that His Majesty's Government will do nothing to hinder "genuine trade" between Britons and Russians through "business channels," and will allow "an adequate number" of Soviet Russians to remain in London for this reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Russian Break | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...subordinates, announced that, yes, the city would accept from Jules E. Mastbaum, theatre owner and philanthropist, a million-dollar collection of Sculptor Rodin's works and a $400,000 museum to keep them in. Architects Paul Cret and Jacques Greber having completed their plans, there was nothing further to hinder the museum's erection at Parkway & 23rd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix de Rome | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

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