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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is to receive their result in ink. Thus, pictures in newspapers are made with screens having 60 lines to the inch; pictures on paper with an ivory-like finish have been made with screens up to 400 lines to the inch. Color Process. Europeans had solved the problem theoretically when Ives first made practical "color filters" for a camera, to extract from a colored painting the patterns and values of the three primary colors composing it. As every one knows, each primary color-yellow, blue, red-has its complementary- violet, orange, green. When added to its complementary, each primary...
Aristide Briand (January, 1921, to January, 1922), 64, veteran "Left" spellbinder, ten times Premier. He was appointed for the term in question because his supreme ability as a negotiator was felt to be requisite in dealing with the then pressing problem of security arising out of the Peace Treaties. He represented France at the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference (November, 1921), but was overthrown by the "Right" when he attempted to negotiate security with Lloyd George at the ill-starred Cannes Conference...
SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN - Eugene O'Neill's confusing problem about selling your brains to the devil. CRAIG'S WIFE - About a woman who dusted her house so carefully that it ceased to be a home. LULU BELLE - Lenore Ulric painting a brilliantly tawdry picture of a Negro dance hall girl. LESS SERIOUS CRADLE SNATCHERS - In which three lonely ladies, aged about 40, find diversion in three young men from college. WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS - J. M. Barrie and Helen Hayes collaborating in a most satisfactory revival. AT MRS. BEAM'S - The terrible predicament...
Hookworm. Last year the Rockefeller International Health Board aided health enterprises in 97 states and countries. Hookworm eradication is proven a simple problem of rural sanitation. (The worms abound in bewrayed soil, invade the body by way of bare feet.) The Board helped hookworm campaigns in Mexico, Central America, the Antilles, Colombia, Paraguay, Ceylon, Madras, Siam, Java, Fiji; surveyed the problem in Montserrat, Hayti, Java, Straits Settlement, Cook Island, the New Hebrides and Spain...
...redoubtable Governors Ferguson (see p. 9) of Texas have solved the knotty problem of man's origin. They perceived that while "evolution" has become anathema among good Baptists, the same flower of evil, though by another name, would smell but half as poisonous. So by administrative fiat it was decreed, and last week Manhattan publishers admitted, that biology textbooks, intended for use among God-fearing Texans, should refer to mankind's "development" and other phases of the ape-to-man theory should be toned down, by deletion or other euphemisms. Thus, 28 pages of a biology text...