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The Teetor enterprise has changed its name several times and switched from railroad equipment to automobile engines to piston rings. It became the Perfect Circle Co. in 1918, is now the biggest U. S. maker of piston rings (capitalization $1,625,000), turning out 300,000 "perfect circles" a day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: I See | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

On the first day of the conference 46 Japanese and 76 U. S. and Canadian students met in the Reed College chapel, squirmed in the pews while the speakers talked of nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Summer Studies | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

The black-robed rabbi glanced down at the casket covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Death of Wiley | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Twice during the past three weeks, Trenton, N. J.'s old, spired First Presbyterian Church became an ecclesiastical courtroom. Pious partisans for prosecution and defense filled its pews. The Moderator of the Presbytery sat as judge on the bench, gaveled lustily when spectators laughed. Counsel bickered, wrangled, thumbed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Machen on Trial | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Delegate Robinson need not have worried. The ostensibly legislative chamber of the Moscow Soviet clearly reveals itself to any practiced architect for what it is. Unlike the U. S. Congress or the French Chamber of Deputies, the room is not constructed with aisles so arranged that any member may leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Black Blank | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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