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...continue as consultant for the battery company after you passed to the Great Beyond." Said Edison: "You are crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could bring the answers in in writing on Monday morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prescient Edison | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...California law will work out in practice is open to question. California lawyers pointed out this week that a lawyer will hesitate to challenge a judge before whom he is likely to have to continue to appear. Abuse of the new statute may come from criminal lawyers seeking to stall a case along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Challengeable Judges | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...veterinarian can be and how badly an animal can need him burst on the convention while it was still sitting. In Nebraska, Iowa, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Maryland and Virginia an epizootic† of sleeping sickness broke out among horses. Hundreds of horses drooped their heads, leaned against their stall walls, collapsed into the straw, died. Some, excited by the nervous effects of the disease, banged their heads against the stalls, died trying to run on their sides. A vaccine against this disease, which is also called equine encephalomyelitis and blind staggers, is made from the brains of infected horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinarians in Omaha | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...John Simon's job has been to stall off deputations that have been to the Treasury with proposals about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: QREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Bossed | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...Noble Order of the Garter, headed by the King & Queen, shuffled into place, proceeded to St. George's Chapel-the choir of which is the Garter Chapel-to worship together for the first time in 23 years, the second time in 129. Each knight filed into his own stall over which, during his lifetime, hang his sword, helmet, crest and banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 27 Garters | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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