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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislatures, providing for a scientific treatment of criminals. The statute is to grant psychiatric service for all criminals, and before any criminal is sentenced for a felony in which the judge has any discretion as to the sentence, a psychiatrist report must be filed as part of the court record. Until such a report is filed no felon is to be released. Resolutions were passed in favor of a uniform motor vehicles law, a uniform "blue sky" law (controlling sales of securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: At Memphis | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...record tells of a bedridden observer who watched the futile efforts of one of the insects to climb upon the bed from the floor. At length the bug crawled up the wall, moved out across the ceiling and dropped on its destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cimex Lectularius | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Berlin, one Max Hinel, 22, n 5-pound cobbler, ate 75 eggs in ten and a half minutes, thus beating the former world's record by one egg, 90 seconds. Champion Hinel's training meals Consisted of two tureens of potato soup, 40 eggs or four pounds of preserved meat with bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

When you take into consideration the fact that the team made this record under a coach who was serving his first year, then you begin to understand what the latent possibilities of the Peninsula state boys really are. The particular coach in question is a certain Mr. Charles Bachman of Notre Dame fame. Like so many others of his tribe he purports to teach Rockne football, but unlike a great many others of his tribe he really seems to do it. The report is that he has equipped his team with an offense of which the great Knute himself might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

There are two specimens of the rare Schomburgk's deer, one a world record. The home of this deer is still a mystery. It is supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS -and- CRITIQUES | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

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