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Potent Moonlight: Light vibrations given a definite direction are said to be polarized. Sunlight reflected by sea, snow, sky is partially polarized; moonlight is largely polarized. To find the influence of polarized light on living organisms, it was played on yeast, bacteria, sick rats. The growth of yeast, bacteria was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Richmond | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Professor Palmer bases his case upon the assumption that the four year college course which "aims at teaching nothing useful, and so by its presence in a society disposed to measure everything by material standards becomes a factor of extremest use" is the most vital and worthwhile element in American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PALMER OVERLOOKS | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

With most of this one can agree fully but Professor Palmer leaves out of consideration one important point, the relationship of the over-population of the arts college with the Junior College. By calling attention to the abuses to which the Junior College idea is subject Professor Palmer has performed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR PALMER OVERLOOKS | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

Striking Development: 1) seizure of the $2,000,000 British cigaret factory at Hankow, last week, by the Chinese workers, egged on by the Nationalists, who announced that the factory will henceforth be run on Communist lines; 2) announcement by the Provost of Johns Hopkins University, Charles K. Edmunds, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Inglorious Victory | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

"It is true that I am sick. [Stock jobbers recently used his sickness to beat down the price of Cities Service securities.] I have been a sufferer from rheumatism practically all my life [57 years], or at least that is what it was called. . . . What I have now resembles what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: One-Manned | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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