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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colgate University's Professor Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U. S. English | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Nobody knows whether or not there is animal life on the planet Mars; nobody knows whether or not it is possible to reach Mars with a radio signal. In 1924 a group of radio engineers trying to tune in Mars heard signals which they claimed they could not identify with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Negative Experiment | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Intelligence. Three days after her operation, little Alice was sucking lustily at her bottle. Her fontanel began to sink. Last week, when Dr. Scarff gave Alice a checkup, he found that her head had decreased a quarter of an inch in circumference, while her body had nearly doubled in size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hydrocephalus | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Recuperating from an appendectomy at the age of 19, Linnea Fransson of East Orange, N. J. was told by the doctor to eat what she liked. What she liked was candy, lemonade, ginger ale. She ate nothing else. She left business school, retreated to her home, sucked lollipops to her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lollipop Death | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

>Bellairs & friends once borrowed the corpse of a Chinese from the morgue, took it to a saloon, ordered plenty of drinks, left the Chinese to pay the bill. The bartender shook the Chinese to awaken him, knocked him down, tried desperately to hide the body while Bellairs & Co., peering through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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