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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon costly and significant gifts were bestowed upon the Royal Afghans. For Queen Thuraya two Angora cats of super-best breed, next an even softer, silkier present: a pile of rugs made from the pelts of famed and rare Angora goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Home to Kabul | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...these embryouie manuscripts totals in the College proper $1,262.53. The cost per volume and the ratio of book usage per scholar could not be ascertained although the inquiring agent was assured that the student whose inroads would earn him the title of a dollar-a-year man is rare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Financial Outlay for Examination Blue-Books Is $1,262.55--Monitor, Sanskrit Costs Form Contrast | 5/25/1928 | See Source »

...past months have been brilliant with scientific achievement; vistas have opened up which dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...week, no exception, saw the announcement of the annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation, listing an expenditure of $1,223,124 "Amazing" said the public as it turned the page, failing to comprehend the figure in the light of an item in the world's broadest educational program. But, rare is the educator or the scientist who has not, or does not hope to be, aided by this program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ledger Man | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...does not approve of the methods used by many conservatives in protecting the existing order from the onsloughts of radicalism. He avoids the partisan extremes of both the Watch and Ward Society and the Sacco-Vanzetti defense Committee, and as a result achieves a soundness which is rare in all writings on liberty...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: Lawyer's Logic. | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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