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...though seen from a distant hilltop. It is a walled city of the fifteenth century, shining in the sunlight among poplar, plane and cypress. The river Adige like a thread of silver. We hear faintly the sound of many bells which grows louder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/9/1936 | See Source »

...what tantrums are. Actors, actresses, politicians and babies occasionally have them. ... I called in my personal physician, Dr. Bynacker, a horse doctor, and he told me it was practically the same thing as 'running fits' in dogs and caused in the same way. . . . Then it was the sunlight of understanding flooded my soul, and I knew exactly what caused Bilbo's tantrums. I remembered, as you remember, that he was living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Broom or Bilbo | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...fast scientific stride Biologist William Firth Wells, industrious instructor of sanitary science at the Harvard School of Public Health, has made oyster eggs germinate artificially and by means of artificial sunlight made germs vanish from thin air. Last week after working persistently against smaller & smaller forms of life, Biologist Wells was able to announce that by means of ultraviolet light he destroys the minuscule cause of influenza as it floats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Light on Disease | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...means of this big contraption he has proved many bacteriologic things which others have surmised-e. g., that germs actually float in air; that sunlight and artificial sunlight kill floating germs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Light on Disease | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Cleveland's three newspapers, was elected Mayor. Meantime, a little group of public-spirited citizens had been thinking that the 100th anniversary of Cleveland's incorporation as a city offered a good chance for some kind of municipal exhibitionism which would put Cleveland back into the national sunlight. Having had the inspiration, they turned for action to a onetime Clevelander named Lincoln Griffith Dickey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Fun on a Dump | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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