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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hurling a shower of large mangel-wurzels (cow beets) on the stage, the students cried: "This is an insult to economic distress in Croatia!" "Long live Croatian culture!" "Down with such vulgarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Beets for Baker | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Chicago doctors pay $15,000 to $20,000 for their education. They expect good income after that investment. Public or semi-public institutions hurt business for private practitioners. Hence Chicago doctors have long yammered against the Public Health Institute. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chicago Fuss | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted over land and sea, playing havoc with solemn industrious citizenry, making mock of bump tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy, gives up four potsful of soup

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagabond Monk | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...deep-voiced, long-bearded second man was Rabbi Morris S. Margolies, last week elected president of Yeshiva and of the Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He, too, is a native of Russia. In 1899 he became rabbi of the Boston Orthodox Community. Since 1906 he has been rabbi of the Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan. In Manhattan there are few orthodox Jewish activities to which his name has not been attached. Orphans and the aged have listened for his slow steps, rabbinical students have harkened to his priestly wisdom. His greatest fondness is study, his ambition bringing Jewish culture and spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Margolies' Yeshiva | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...seems, the fiery mess is continually boiling over from the kettle's snouty spout. First, a trickle of fat sparks. Then the trickle turns to a stream, the stream reaches the circumference of a man's body -a stream of molten steel with a long, sheer drop of 30 feet. The stream thuds into the pit, splashes out in a vast circle, flows like hardening lava across the floor. Should the hypothetical fire-worshipper, unused to these modern manifestations of his fire-god, permit himself to become engulfed in this onrush of liquid metal, he would speedily become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furnaces & Gold | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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