Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pigmentation. I changed the eyes of one woman from brown to gray within five months. I could not have done it if the color of the eye had been caused by pigmentation, as pigmentation cannot be altered. All babies are born with a bluish colored eye, and when they turn green, gray, brown, hazel or some other color, it is not an accident, but indicates an inherited or acquired toxic condition...
...household articles, furnishes a panorama of American inventive improvement. There are, for example, candle moulds and Betty lamps, planes and locks, one of them supposed to have come from the old Pennsylvania state building at Harrisburg. There are augurs which had to be removed from the hole at every turn to get rid of the shaving. Most interesting of all, perhaps, is a funnel-like device with a plunger, called a sausage gun, by means of which our early hot dogs were stuffed...
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...Serge Koussevitzky's most debatable novelties in his early days with the Boston Symphony was Pacific 231, by Arthur Honegger, a young French Swiss. When Composer Honegger made his U. S. debut, last week, as conductor of his own works, his orchestra was Mr. Koussevitzky's. Turn about, one sage remarked in the lobby of the Cambridge Theatre, was fair play indeed in this case. Honegger won fame in the U. S. by the snorts and puffs of his giant locomotive. Fair enough, then, that Boston should see him first, hear his Rugby (TIME, Nov. 19) before...
Fifty years after he was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Ruttka, Austria (now Czechoslovakia), John Daniel Hertz retired from business. He had enjoyed the fight to get rich; but, now, why bother about it any longer? He has a pleasure-loving wife who, in turn, has a stable full of fine horses, including Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, now in England getting primed for more victories. Wherever Mr. Hertz goes in the U. S. he can ride in the taxicabs which he has made numerous, famous, inexpensive. He is going to Florida, to Europe...