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Third Day shows the grey dawn of the first landscape, with the first signs of life emerging from primordial chaos. Says Kovarsky: "This tree has the twist of a motherly woman. The cloud is the symbol of rain. The red seed, poppy seed, is a symbol of growth. The sun-light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIRTH OF THE WORLD | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...John Harvey Kellogg is a healthy old man. For many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...greenhouses incorporate many special features. They will be equipped with shades which will enable experiments with sun-light as opposed to artificial light. An artificial waterfall or ledge with constantly running water will enable the botanists and biologists to study the curious plant growths under water. All tables for study are provided with electric lamps to make possible the scrutiny of plant and animal diseases whose spores open only at night-time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROVIDE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE | 11/4/1930 | See Source »

Samuel Meeks stood in the sun-light in front of the courthouse steps. Alice was right-he married her to be kept, but. . . you got to like a person. Buckwheat cakes, with the brown bacon beside them; nights when the windows rattled so you could not sleep, thinking how good it was to be warm. Sadness flooded him. He felt an immense, searching pity for himself, homeless, a wanderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Farm | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...delivers one last stroke of mercy when the bull is in his death throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust is but one among many appetites?for seething, hot colors; for the glare of white sun-light on torrid sand; for violent animal action; for full-throated screaming; for rich wine, amorous deviltries; and a swift, red death rather than a gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toreador | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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