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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explaining further, the Chief Justice declared that if the Act had specified merely "persons" instead of "fit and qualified persons" the Supreme Court would have been obliged to rule that all human beings, including women, criminals and the insane, should be eligible for Canadian Senatorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Not Fit | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Types I and II excellent sera have been prepared from horses. These can be found in any large city in the world, including Montreal, although there was none obtainable in Quebec. Horse serum, however, makes many sick people worse. The foreign proteins introduced into the human body may cause chills, sweating, suffocation, fainting: obviously not the best stimulation for a Floyd Bennett with a temperature of 103 degrees; a pulse of 124 beats a minute; a left lung full of pus. This was the Type II serum at Montreal; pure enough but containing horse serum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pneumonia Flight | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...points, but not on this one. And since the ghost of the Big-Man-in-His-Class shows only a periodic taste for walking, it seems fair to believe that Harvard undergraduate publications offer the same reward as any other serious, nonathletic outside activity of college life: experience with human beings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRIDE OR SIDESADDLE | 5/3/1928 | See Source »

Charles Paddock of Los Angeles, acclaimed by Grantland Rice "the fastest human of all time," who is appearing this week at Lowe's State Theatre in Boston, will don his running togs to try out the Stadium track some time this week and will probably talk to the University track track candidates at that time, it was announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FASTEST HUMAN" WILL TEST STADIUM CINDERS THIS WEEK | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...inclemency could not prevent three perfectly good marks from falling at the hands of the Westerners. Most renowned of sprinters, Charlie Paddock once more outdid himself, and doubtless smiled a bit as he showed the effete East why the headlines ungrammatically proclaim him as "the world's fastest human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEEDY | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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