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...better light, etc., but it is perfectly obvious that an exuberant community is merely indulging in a little self-advertising. No starting academic progress may be expected from such an innovation, and on the grounds of sentiment the thing becomes preposterous. Buildings pleasantly mantled with ivy, the play of sunlight among structures dedicated each to a special function of academic life, above all, the absence of trees, which do more to make an attractive campus than anything else, can find no place about a skyscraper. At the very start, Pittsburgh cuts away all the subconscious beauty which plays such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOING UP! | 11/13/1924 | See Source »

Rickets is a medical term for poverty?poverty of the bones. When the virtuous salts, retrieved by the body's chemistry from fruits and greens, course more slowly through the blood because of the languor of the heart in winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickets | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

Chickens. Subjected to ordinary sunlight, chickens prospered; left in the dark, they developed rickets and died. Exposed to rays from the quartz window, they grew faster than normally ; their bones became very stout, sometimes so stout that their growth was a positive menace. In a few weeks, by continued use of the rays, it was found possible to develop fabulously succulent small fowls?"superbroilers." When the milk and celery which fed them had been treated with the rays, they thrived better than those whose food had not been so treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rickets | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

...autumn lists?Around the World in New York and lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa's Daughter, will soon be unveiled to the glances of Broadway. Bercovici is a Rumanian, born there in 1882. He came to this country in 1916, but no amount of American sunlight and air, fortunately, can erase the swarthy hue of his person or the sleek ebon of hair and mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Darling | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...drew back and looked around me?it was a beautiful and terrible sight. The gloomy walls of the crater rose up on all sides, splashed here and there by red and yellow patches and lit up fantastically by the sunlight. The smoke rose up from the mouth in great curves and spread itself about in the crater, but, fortunately, nearly always in the opposite direction from where I was standing. I raised my voice and repeatedly called out to my companion, whom I could just see above me on the edge of the crater, in order to try the famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Empedocles? | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

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