Word: true
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your last week's issue [TIME, Dec. 9] you characterize me as "of the Boston Globe." That would have been true three and a half years ago. I left the Globe in September...
...officially announced that its Isidore Sydney Falk had isolated the causative germ, the Streptococcus polymorphous (TIME, Dec. 23), the news spread with the celerity of a political or murder despatch. From London Dr. David Thomson, who has worked on the same problem, said: "Proving that one has discovered the true germ of influenza is in reproducing the disease in man or in animals by this germ in pure cultures . . . this is a very important part of the American's discovery...
...true solar year are 365 days, 5 hr. 48 min., 46 sec. This is 26 seconds less than in the calendar year.* In 3,323 years the accumulated error will mount to a full day, thereby vastly confuse astronomical and historical records...
Parents and the family physician investigated, found the statement true, changed Mary's name to David, let him get his hair cut, sent cards to friends announcing the change...
...true solution in view of these facts is obvious--that it would be much easier for all concerned if the gates could be left open until twelve...