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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars of savings to Mr. Armstrong and his financiers on the 3½ inch steel cable he is having laid to hold his floating island to its anchors. Those anchors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Seadrome | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...respiration and temperature until they were perceptible to only the most prejudiced observers. The heartless conduct of nine conspirators from a place called Philadelphia hastened her untimely end. The remains will lie in state today at the park, weather permitting, and the funeral will probably be later. She leaves two sisters, Faith and Charity, neither of whom was present yesterday. Philadelphia papers please copy. Last week the New York Herald Tribune published the following headline: ASSOCIATION MAKES INDOOR POLO BALL OF SOFT RUBBER OFFICIAL. By that it meant that the Indoor Polo Association met and decided that instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport Notes, Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...current mania and the character is a police chief's son who, asked to help out on the force because the present captain thinks he might be a chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting in dialog where it fitted. All the big scenes are movement, and talk makes the shorter ones funnier, helps the action get started. The gags, like Lloyd's lecture on the petunia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Lynn, Mass., one Francis Joseph Whitehead was born with two ring-fingers on each hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

DISRAELI-George Arliss makes this drama of the Prime Minister who loved peacocks, gardening and Queen Victoria as exciting as detective fiction. HALLELUJAH-blackamoor joys and sorrows. BULLDOG DRUMMOND-phantasms in a not-so-merry-England. WHY BRING THAT UP?(Moran & Mack) -the "Two Black Crows" of record and radio fame, repeat their inane, hilarious dialog for the cinema. HOLLYWOOD REVUE-elaborate photography of the Ziegfeld idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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