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This apparent dominance of economic motives even over the most pressing of humanitarian needs is not a matter for excessive cynicism. But the human race still depends, as it always has, on cooperation for preservation; and unless public opinion finds solutions for such problems, this civilization must go the way...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMERCIALIZED MURDER | 4/1/1925 | See Source »

Fethi Bey, Turkish Prime Minister, last week turned his head this way and that, like a victim in the hands of a photographer, but never would he look in the lens. At last he gave up his evasive fight, admitted that the Kurds had revolted, under the leadership of Sheik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Revolt | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

A Lost Lady. When the heavens fall and the eruption of eternity smothers the world, this department will probably be still protesting peevishly that straight character study cannot be reflected in the camera lens. For it is the words that come out of a man's mouth that define...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Whenever the heart beats, electricity flows over the body's circuit. Dr. Einthoven's device records the fluctuations of this current by means of two wires of quartz, so fine that they are invisible even under a microscope, unless thrown into relief by light against a dark background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prize | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

The New York World: . . . "John Spargo, theorist, . . . has never seen Russia at all save through the somewhat smoky lens of his own profound convictions.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fourth Week | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

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