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...Minor Peet, ebullient neurosurgeon of the University of Michigan whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Prevention | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Peet prescribed the method of administering this: "The subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Prevention | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

When George Lyman Kittredge stalked jauntily out of Harvard 6 one mild May morning last spring, crowds collected to stamp and cheer, and many an official camera snapped busily. For more than a generation Mr. Kittredge had brought Shakspere to Harvard men, stripping the peet of four centuries' integument of other people's criticism, and clothing him in the vestments of that royal Elizabethan age in which he lived. So crowds gathered to honor the passing, with Mr. Kittredge's retirement, of a great Harvard tradition-English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Thomas II and other sons, who passed them on to Seth Thomas III and finally to Seth Thomas IV. The Thomases stuck to quality products, but their line broadened to include nearly everything from delicate chronometers to the world's biggest clock, installed in 1924 in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's Jersey City plant for the benefit of commuters across the Hudson River. Seth Thomas IV was president of his family concern from 1915 until the merger, when he became GTI's board chairman. He sired two daughters but no sons. After his death in 1932 the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Old Timekeepers | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Nearly a year ago in Federal Court in South Bend there came up for trial a famed suit involving four-fifths of the U. S. soap business. Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive-Peet were suing Lever Brothers Co. for infringement of patents covering the art of spraying hot, liquid soap into hot, dry air where it becomes Ivory Snow (Procter & Gamble), Super Suds (Colgate) or Rinso (Lever). For weeks Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick listened to a flood of foamy oratory, saw reels of soap cinemas, inspected elaborate soap laboratories set up for his edification by expensive soap lawyers (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Soap Decision | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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