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...jury of Iowa farmers and merchants agreed that it was no libel to call Norman Baker a quack, gave the A. M. A. another memento mori to wave at other charlatans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quack Quelled | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...pathetic memento was left by Pilot Cox. Earlier in the week he had borrowed $20 from the Camden passenger terminal. He left a note in the cashdrawer: "I 0 U $20. If I crack up, present this to my wife for collection." Just before taking off from Newark on his last flight he sent a message over the company's teletype: "I have the $20. Have a bodyguard meet my plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Ludington's First | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared war on Germany, she went to Manhattan, amused herself with many a departing soldier, gob and leatherneck. She further amused herself by sending her ex-husband a memento of each occasion. When her mother began to die, Nasa went home. As you leave her she has not taken on anybody new, but there is someone in the offing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Half-Breed | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solid Space? | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...lovely Helen knows of Peter's long journey through the years and, like him, perceives that the veils of Time are thin. She is unwilling to see him suffer in an age ill-adapted to his experience, so back he goes to his own century to fondle Helen's memento, still preserved in the old house, and to ponder her epitaph while his 20th Century fiancee leaves him, both of them disconsolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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