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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Caucasian Love (Amkino). There is further angry propaganda in this one, directed now at the Cossacks whom the Tsar sent to drive the people of Tersk out of their village. The situation is presented less consciously and vehemently than in The New Babylon (see above). Good shots: the illiterate Chechens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Samuel Insull of Chicago, potent public utilitarian, in an address before several hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Lawyers in framing punitive statutes based them on the medical knowledge of the period in which they were framed. Medical men are constantly revising their theories and opinions and "since the law cannot change with the same flexibility, doctors must first agree among themselves and then explain themselves to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatric Meeting | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd last week flew east from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gould Digging | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Rubber is a complex hydrocarbon. Fundamental in its composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Goldenrod Rubber | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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