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Cornell University has been making a study of egg deterioration and preservation. Last week Paul Francis Sharp, Cornell's professor of dairy chemistry, who has been working on the matter with other Cornell men, wrote a preliminary report to Science. Eggs spoil, he stated, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storage Eggs | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...capita consumption of paper should also increase. Careless school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sol Cheered | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Lash of the Czar (Amkino). Propaganda, regardless of whether it is issued in a just cause or a stupid one, is always disagreeable. It is especially disagreeable when dished out to the public with an indigestible sugar-coating of Art. But although propaganda has spoiled for the U. S. public many pictures which, wildly praised by some critics for their scenic effects, were merely soap-box communism, propaganda does not spoil this story of a governor with a conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Bilkerd constantly surveyed the surrounding desert. As nothing untoward was visible, he suggested that it would be a pity to spoil our plans. So we proceeded at good speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Shots at Crane | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...over his bunk. The complications resulting from his bluff are worked out so skillfully and with so little sentimentality that the people seem real and the situation funny and convincing at the same time ; that the end, confused by an unnecessary sound-sequence, is devoid of kisses, should not spoil this smart picture for the box office. Best shot: the Texan (Gary Cooper) drinking a chocolate ice-cream soda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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