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...Lamps of tomorrow will mood-condition our homes, paint pleasing and ever-changing pictures or designs on our walls. kill bacteria, and so guard us against disease, provide us with health-giving radiation and sun tan while we sleep. . . . Heating lamps may warm our homes in cold weather." So prophesied Lamp Engineer Samuel Galloway Hibben of Westinghouse Lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...vast illiterate army year after year marches through college without having acquired anything but a sun tan from the light to which they have been exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Design | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...President still relies on moving pictures, and his favorites, like many another citizen's, are animated cartoons. He gets little time for his beloved stamp collection, little time to con his ship models, his collection of navy prints. Most cheering note to anti-third-termers: his big tan sombrero, which he wears on campaigns, is packed away many layers deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Check-Up | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Cleveland, Paul Vories McNutt united-for one evening at least-the numerous scrapping Ohio Democratic elements at a binge given by New Dealer Dan T. Moore, regional SEC chief. Even big businessmen, Republicans, and three-time Republican Mayor Harold H. Burton came, saw and were temporarily conquered by tall, tan, terrific Mr. McNutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Calm to the point of boredom was the ceremony of the signing. It was 12:04 p.m. when President Roosevelt, grasping an inexpensive black & tan fountain pen, affixed his signature to the joint resolution. Next minute, using another pen just like it, he signed proclamations defining combat areas (see p. 16), and banning belligerent submarines from U. S. ports. To Senator Key Pittman went one pen. To Representative Sol Bloom went another. A third-an expensive one that memento-loving Sol Bloom had bought just for the ceremony-the President decided to keep for himself. Off-stage a newsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home Again | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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