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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1915 at Chalons-sur-Marne, Professor Gosset improvised the first operating-room-ambulance, inaugurated the technique of sewing up soldiers on the spot almost as soon as they are blown open. In 1928 he was elected President of the French Congress of Surgeons. For 17 years he has refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gosset | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

At most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

One day in 1925 troubled directors of Trumbull Steel Co. sat around a table and wondered where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Throughout the U. S. last week, many a musical citizen trilled on the keyboards of a Chickering, of a Knabe, of a Mason & Hamlin piano, all products of American Piano Co. factories. The Knabe is the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Jeritza, Ponselle, Titta Ruffo use it. Moiseiwitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piano Glissando | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Long has it been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Piano Glissando | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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