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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LOTS OF 'EM. The farther east you go the worse they get The only places I ever found either absent is where it is fairly breezy or pretty confounded dry. As for rattlers, they're where you find 'em. But why worry ? It's a rare thing to hear of anyone getting bit and rarer still to hear of the victim dying. Autos are far more deadly. You're a stickler for the truth, that's the why of this letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...Josiah Charles Stamp: A statistician, by whom rare services to his own government and to the Reparations Commission have been rendered through sage advice and a tireless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

...editorial management by publishing the story of the dog with a bone in its throat which was successfully treated in our free small animal clinic, by our veterinarian, Dr. G. R. Hartman. Getting out the bone in itself was not an exceptional feat, though such operations on animals are rare and difficult, and it is high time that the public should know that veterinary practice of the best kind nowadays frequently reaches quite as high a standard of skill and knowledge as that employed on human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...instructor would also be much reduced by the elimination of the superfluous effort connected with the workings of a large and regularly prescribed course. The student could concentrate on his own difficulties, and develop his own abilities. The instructor would be called on more for the exercise of rare judgment and a sparing wisdom rather than the drudgery of correcting masses of papers and handing out ready made precepts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERING ENGLISH | 6/18/1927 | See Source »

...brought further progress in the transition of the author's creative tendencies. It turned his mind to history and the affairs of state. "Frederic and the Great Coalition" is more than a fascinating historical sketch, is a psychological treatise of a historical subject, only too rare in biographical writing. The bulky volume. "The Reflections of an Unpolitical Mind" was the first attempt in Germany to wield into a unit the political ideas and aspirations of Prussia and the philosophical and artistic "Weltanschauung" of the country of "poets and dreamers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas Mann--In General and In Particular | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

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