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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, has a way of calculating physiological age. He takes blood serum and centrifuges it until the serum is free of cells. In the serum he cultures pure tissue or tissue cells, generally fibroblasts. Simultaneously he cultures the same sort of tissue in a saline solution. The older a person is (physically) the slower will his tissues grow in his serum. The ratio of tissue growth in serum to tissue growth in salt solution is Dr. Carrel's "growth index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Age | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...color the mule is a jet black. He has seen several years of service with a machine-gun company and as a result is not dismayed by noise of any sort. At football games he has been accustomed to kick and rear when led into view for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Deacon", Black Army Mule, Heads Stadium March of 1200 Cadets Today-Is Not Subject to Stage-fright Before Crowds | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

HARD TO GET and CLOWIN' THE FRETS is sort of peculiar. Los Angeles Biltmore Trio, thank you, with two guitars and a vibraphone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...seems to me that the ruling which requires the signing of this agreement is basically poor. Undoubtedly my experience is not unusual, as freshmen, we sign so many agreements that we are more than likely to forget details of this sort before another year has come around. When we sign up for the "Crimson," we are not liable for four year's subscriptions. Why are not the two cases parallel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Corruption | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Tobacco & Sodas. United Cigar Stores bought considerable stock in Bastian-Blessing Co., from whom it will buy all its soda fountain equipment needed during the next ten years. Bastian-Blessing dividends thus will be a sort of indirect, shuttle profit to United Cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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