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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removing impurities). 3) How can substances necessary to the blood be prevented from escaping through the porous tube? They cannot be prevented, but identical substances in compensating amounts are dissolved in the surrounding solution so that the blood can lose nothing that it is desirable for it to maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Laundering the Blood | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

...week announced that Secretary of Commerce Hoover is one of those who think that the nations of the world would be more amicable were their ways of weighing and measuring the same. Said Mr. Hoover: "It may well be set forth, as a truism, that it is impossible to maintain proper standards of ethical conduct throughout business and industry without a proper background of recognized physical standards of quality and quantity. Much of the misunderstanding and ill-feeling arising in the course of transactions between producers and consumers can be eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Quart | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Until just contentions shall have been given satisfaction, we shall maintain our protest and shall use our best possible endeavors to seek an amicable adjustment of the question and ensure forever the traditional friendship between the two nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Diet | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

General. "We shall not confine our attention to questions relating to the United States, Russia and China. Our efforts will be directed to maintain and to strengthen friendly relations with all nations having important territorial economic interests in the Far East and on the whole Pacific, and generally to do our Whole part in securing to the world the blessings of peace and stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Diet | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...Roberts is a Bolshevikophobe. That is to say, he hates Bolshevism, which is not surprising. He likes the clean-cut, antibureaucratic efficiency of Fascismo. The prejudices are based not upon concrete reasoning but upon temperamental predilections. The sober, nude, crude truth is that a partisan book cannot maintain itself on nebulous foundations of sentiment. Because the author has tried to do this, his book has fallen short of being first-class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Buchan | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

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