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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affects women. . . . He's handsome and he's got magnetism and a gift of words. And he's had lots of practice." He had started a commune on a parcel of land in Virginia which the Apostle Paul assured him was the site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince had $20,000. Despite the opposition of Isaiah, Father Swann took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Table-Rapping Utopia | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Site of the hot-dog luncheon was a lately acquired hilltop on Franklin Roosevelt's own land, adjacent to his mother's. Here, he revealed, he is going to have something he has long wanted: his "dream house." To newshawks he showed its shape, outlined in the woods with stakes and string. Contracts were let last week to Adams, Faber Co. of Montclair, N. J. Architects: Franklin Roosevelt and Arthur Tombs of Manhattan and Atlanta (who laid out Georgia Warm Springs Foundation). Cost: $15,000. Name: "Dutchess Hill." Style: Dutch colonial. Material: native stone (from old fences). Rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: In Motion | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

According to his theory, injury to any part of the body also injures local nerves and sends messages of pain to the brain to protect the injured part. The brain sends messages down the spinal cord to nerves of the muscles at the site of injury. A hurt fist will clench, a face twist, a foot limp. These messages may accumulate if the injury is very great or persistent. This accumulation of nerve impulses may itself irritate nerves, causing useless and damaging excess pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Venom for Pain | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Reshuffling of the University architectual set-up north of Kirkland Street continues as the new Hemenway gymnasium nears completion. Built on the former site of Gannett House of the Law School, the new building will replace the old Hemenway gymnasium, which was demolished to provide for the Littauer Center of Public Administration will probably be completed by October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Gym Will be Finished in October to Replace Hemenway | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

...foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years of shilly-shallying by politicos with options on or interests in most available airport property in the Washington area, threatened to boycott the unsafe Washington Airport. Next day, the District Airport Commission recommended a site, at Campsprings, Md., ten miles southeast of the Capital. Passed by the Senate, a bill providing for a $3,500,000 airport on the recommended site has since awaited action by the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Stuff | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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