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...covered with great ulcers, about one-half inch in diameter, one-sixteenth to one-eighth inch deep; the margins were irregular in outline and thickened. Dr. Senftner told the three to flip their hands over. The backs were covered with similar sores. One of the patients had the same sort of lesion on his face. All three had rather high fever, pain in their hands and in one case a swollen lymph node in the armpit. Dr. Senftner went out into the cow-yard and found the dairy-man's herd of 13 cows all sick, their udders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cowpox | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Significance. The author has chosen a most unlikely plot for his novel and accomplished a truly rare job. It is an important piece of literature, imaginative, logical, incisive, poetry translated to prose, conceivably executed by a Joyce gone sane. Dundee was simply a less-than-average sort of fellow who wished for more-than-average success; the stranger was Dundee's own will to succeed. The stranger told Dundee what to do but could not tell him how to do it. Thus was Dundee's success withheld. Despite its tendency toward allegory, Juggler's Kiss holds interest with astounding tenacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Juggler's Kiss | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

French A, B, 1, and 2; Italian 1; and Spanish 1; will be the only courses excepted from the Reading Period respite. No scheduled meeting of any sort will he held in other Romance language courses. All tutorial conferences will also cease during the Reading Period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD OF ROMANCE TONGUES ADAPTED TO READING PERIOD | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

...wants such a magazine; that in its pure form it cannot be self-supporting; and that therefore in the nature of things, it must try to compromise. It must not too zealously devote itself to "aesthetic outpourings", because "it is admittedly difficult to get our undergraduate to read any sort of professed literary endeavor". In the cir- cumstances, should such a paper try to keep its place in the sun by catering "to the tastes of the majority"-- or should it run the risk of suicide and print "stuff after the manner of the Dial in its wildest moments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWER'S DISFAVOR SETTLES ON ADVOCATE | 11/29/1927 | See Source »

...half-friend, Governor Len Small. These three had no trouble agreeing that the G. O. P. must nominate a Midwestern man in 1928, but on Mr. Lowden's candidacy Mayor Thompson turned down two large, eloquent thumbs. A day or two later, in Washington, Mayor Thompson said: "What sort of a guy is Senator Curtis?* I want to get a line on him. He looks pretty good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Booms | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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