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...them, sharp-cared, heard a soda cracker acting up in the closet where the icebox was placed. Skeptical, he approached the door cantiously. The "causa causans" was a tiny bluishgrey animal, nibbling. Lie sat down on the floor, fascinated, and watched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...radio at the Hayden Planetarium this last weekend. Asked what the common ingredients of glass were, he replied. "Silicon Dioxide!" The radio-interviewer in the quiz was so impressed with this sign of crudition that he awarded the Harvard man the prize, although the correct answer was and soda, and time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they are trying to escape, choosing what is frugal rather than countenance the ferment here, where life bubbles with the effervescent rhapsodic idiocy of soda from the siphon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dithyrambic Sex | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...school will take elementary school graduates, in four years turn them into butchers, bakers, grocers, waiters. The food industry has contributed $30,000 worth of equipment: a butcher shop with mechanical slicers, refrigerators, gleaming showcases and sawdust on the floor; a bakery; a grocery; a cafeteria with a soda fountain; a food bacteriology laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Food School | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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