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If the material evidence of modern civilization should be left to ruin by world war or other cataclysm, archeologists thou sands of years hence might find the remains of skyscrapers, subways, concrete highways, pottery, glass, jewels, coins, some tools, the debris of machinery. The written records would have crumbled to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Everlasting Books | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

On a black day last week which was both the 15th anniversary of Japan's great Earthquake of 1923 and the 33rd anniversary of the Typhoon of 1905, the Empire was smitten by a no less violent typhoon which whirled through the neighboring cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Defeats Without Battles | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Just as exterior streamlining has been made up of one part bunk to one part science, the interior "improvements" in these trains will cater largely to U. S. reverence for looks & luxury. Besides scientific lighting, air conditioning, electric signal systems, the Century and Broadway will have leather, cork, copper decorations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Air-Resisting Trains | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

It broke the careers of most of the men who had anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Florida is a fabulous place, a low-lying (max. elev. 325 ft.) peninsula full of paradoxes and contrasts, great banality and great excitement. It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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