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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus has the nation reckoned up the product of its intelligence. The best mental work having now been tabulated, the American genius may again devote itself to balance sheets less nebulous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MENTAL BALANCE SHEET | 5/5/1926 | See Source »

...with Great Britain and Germany. Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Island Check-up | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...Blind Goddess. Probably every cinema sets out more or less seriously to accomplish its purpose. Authors, directors 'and actors must believe in their product. The fact that this product is so often ridiculous does not alter matters. If a film does not prosper they can say it was far too subtle for the masses; if it does they can say it was Art. All of which is a preliminary to saying that The Blind Goddess does accomplish its purpose. It is a murder melodrama with the guilty one convicted via dictaphone. This sounds like any cinema; the film is however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Films | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...read officially the product of the New York Publishers of novels, I have to recognize that the writers have 57 varieties of creeping things and abominable beasts in their heart," declared Reverend Mr. J. Frank Chase of the New England Watch and Ward Society in his talk at the Liberal Club luncheon yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHASE ADVOCATES "NEW PURITANISM" | 4/14/1926 | See Source »

...diabetes is not yet positive. Moderate doses of insulin are not permanently injurious. Yet a certain death definitely due to insulin over-dosage has frightened many persons. Quacks and some commercial biological chemists have misled slow-wits by exploiting substitutes. Some physicians have reported poor results from the true product because they had not learned its proper use. (Reported by Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y., after four years' verification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Congresses | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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