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Connecticut in 1924 had 18,000 members. Dissension has cut into its ranks and some of the larger local bodies have broken with the national organization. It claims that it never attempted an act of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Decline | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...were faint traces of some armless muscles. With boldness and calculation tha surgeon went to work; cut loose the stumps, brought them free; stretched muscles; grafted flesh and skin; produced two arm stumps as large around as the arm of a two-year-old baby. These grew strong, grew larger. Henry became able to wiggle them at will. Artificial arms were carefully fitted over them. He could do things for himself. Best of all he could have regular shirts "with sleeves." His joy when for the first time in his life he was dressed conventionally was so great that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arms | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...rubber industry is showing improvement in England, but what the trend of rubber will be I cannot say. I look for considerable fluctuation over the next six months. The demand for tires in England is increasing all the time. Our January business this year was larger than that of last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Geddes Inspects | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...doubt, when the ruling becomes more familiar, students will increasingly desire to avail themselves of the privilege. Only the limited number of tutors available can prevent the extension of the system to an ever larger group. As the honor student well knows, the guidance of a tutor in preparation for divisionals is more valuable than the lectures of a professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EXTENDED TUTORIAL SYSTEM | 2/23/1926 | See Source »

...been vanquished and no nation has been victorious in our debt agreements with England and the United States. [Loud cheering, since the Italians consider Count Volpi, if not 'victorious,' extremely 'successful.']... With the fluctuations of the exchange, Italy's War debts once reached a figure almost ten times larger than that at which they are now set.... Our foreign liabilities are (theoretically) completely covered by German reparations under the Dawes plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratified | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

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