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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They would not let Gutzon Borglum finish his Confederate Memorial in bas relief on Stone Mountain, Georgia. The committee in charge quarreled with him or he quarreled with them-it all came to the same thing-but he broke up his clay models and fled and they hired a new sculptor-a not un-Benvenuto Cellinesque affair (TIME, Mar. 9, 16, Apr. 27, May 11). But Mr. Borglum is to have another charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Hill Faun | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...enormous tub is filled thus almost weekly; a secondhand bookseller empties it, giving 50 francs a bath, verse or prose.) Letters all go into the fire. No, here is one from a madwoman, addressed in blue, crimson, green inks. "She begs me to save my soul, poor crazed thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...secretary. Josephine brings the notes and manuscript, bundled in a sheet. Safety-pins undone, a torrent pours on the carpet-notebooks, envelopes, visiting cards, tradesmen's bills, timetables. "Burn it, tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...peculiar thing about "the specific factor" is that it is apparently the product of the action of the virus growing in a tumor-and it is different for every animal and even for different tissues of the body. So a cancer of any animal, for example, cannot be given to man from an injection of the animal's tumor containing 1) virus and 2 "specific factor" because the "specific factor" is inappropriate. But virus from an animal tumor, and a "specific factor" from a human tumor, will give man tumor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Book of Confucius, the Buddha or the Essays of Emerson. . . . Who is the Chief Mogul that can tell us what the Bible means ? . . . Nothing was ever heard of all that [Christian divisions] until the Fundamentalists got into Tennessee. . . . Here is one thing I cannot account for, that is the hatred and the venom and feeling of people with very strong religious convictions. . . . Joshua made the sun stand still. The Fundamentalists will make the ages roll back. . . . This is as brazen and bold an attempt to destroy liberty as was ever seen in the Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

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