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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form of settlement that is not much more lenient. If a more lenient agreement is made, how will Great Britain take it? How will Congress take it? Congress has long protested that it would not forgive a cent of foreign indebtedness; but partial debt forgiveness disguised as lower interest or a moratorium Congress may well accept in compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Awakening | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...completed revives the question of hockey as a major sport at Princeton. For several years hockey has enjoyed the status of a major sport at Harvard and with the recent enactment at Yale, Princeton will be the only member of the Big Three holding this sport in a lower position. The regard in which the sport is held depends largely among the student body on its ranking categorically as either major or minor. Competition with Yale and Harvard in hockey so long as it remains a minor sport at Princeton will react to the inevitable disadvantage of Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Hockey | 6/3/1925 | See Source »

...resolution passed in "both branches of the Wisconsin Legislature, last week, a referendum on 2.75% beer will be submitted to the people of the state in November, 1926. The result of the referendum will have no effect on the state laws. It is simply a straw vote officialized. The Lower House of the Legislature also adopted a resolution asking Congress to summon a Constitutional Convention* to repeal the 18th Amendment. The Upper House was expected to concur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Wisconsin | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...tube beginning at the lower termination of the pharynx, passing through the neck and chest behind the windpipe to join the stomach; the esophagus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gullet | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...gorilla. The skull recently found at Taungs, South Africa, is reported as of this general type. ¶Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws found near Heidelberg are probably about 400,000 years old. They are apelike, with manlike teeth. ¶Eoanthropus dawsoni; Fragments of two skulls, part of lower jaws and teeth were found near Piltdown, England. They are about 375,000 years old. They show a semi-human head, an apelike jaw. ¶Homo Neanderthalensis. Many skeletons have been found in France, Spain and Germany from 40,000 to 25,000 years old. The individuals of that age were about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Man? | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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