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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fundamental are these researches that during the War and the aftermath, when all of Russia existed on starvation rations, Pavlov's laboratory continued to function as in times of peace. There was no bread to eat, but there were test tubes, metronomes, platinum wires, and as Pavlov remarked gratefully "always plenty of paper and pencils to write down experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Conditioned Reflex | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Last year he used two steel cylinders, equipped with small platinum balls, pendent in a 35 foot pit. By measuring their mutual attraction and regarding the earth's pull as a constant, he could discover a unit in which to compute the earth's attraction. This time his steel cylinders are equipped with small glass balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of the Earth | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Perry of Brooklyn, N. Y., had good reason to be vexed at herself after permitting a strange man who said his name was "J. C. Cadr" to swindle her in this manner from Asbury Park, N. J., after she had lost and advertised for a $2,000 platinum brooch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Perry of Brooklyn, N. Y., had good reason to be vexed at herself after permitting a strange man who said his name was "J. C. Cadr" to swindle her in this manner from Asbury Park, N. J. after she had lost and advertised for a $2,000 platinum brooch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...projection of a column of air and the vibration of this column before its diffusion into the air. The crowning glory of the flute art is the gold instrument, made with his own hands, many times lent to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Soon he expects to make a platinum flute that will give even richer, truer tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Golden Flute | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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