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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior Senator from Idaho has been pressing other public men for their views on Prohibition in the next election. Last week he was himself pressed for views. Wrote a Dr. Charles Alfred Lee Reed of Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: No, No, No | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...Amanda Lee Beaumont, dean of women at Marshall College, Huntington, W. Va.: "Young women studying to be teachers spend much of their spare time reading up on beauty culture and etiquette in order to attain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: N. E. A. | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...submit a brief essay on "Why I Would Like a Technical Education;" will be queried on engineering or scientific projects they have conceived or executed. A committee composed of President Samuel W. Stratton of M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education Notes, Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan peered patiently at the caged mouse in his living room. It rummaged among the shavings for tidbits. It reared and looked Dr. Little in the eye. But it did not sing for him, as Professor Lee R. Dice had said it could. Professor Dice removed his mouse to his laboratory where it willingly trilled almost as chirpily as a canary and bred quite as prodigiously as any mouse. So that last week Professor Dice was able to exhibit a few of the descendants who likewise were trillers, apparently the Mendelian stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dice's Mice | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Fox River Epitaph | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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