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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Papa, has a way of making his face do his acting for him. It is he, almost as much as his junior partner, who makes the thing go. June Bradley, as Daughter, does well in a rather less interesting part; while Lucin Moore, as Mama, improves on the usual type of dowager lady...

Author: By F. I. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

...mind . . . hopes to get strong by paying a friend to swing the dumbbells." It is an encouraging feature, however, that there are so few such men in our colleges. The trend of education is fast rising, if the signs are not wrong. The near future will find the present type of black sheep entirely weeded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/14/1924 | See Source »

...class or creed; because they recognized that there were men born in humble circumstances, denied the ordinary opportunities of a university education, denied those privileges that come from real learning, but whose sense of duty, whose love of country and whose patriotism were equal to any other type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Calm Men | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

...supply the 30,000 watts it burns. Four long strips of heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum of the big bulb, which closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute sister bulb was the one used recently by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, distinguished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biggest Bulb | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

...Monge Aircraft Co. (Paris) is building a new type of airplane for a flight next Spring direct to New York-mainly to advertise the progress of French aviation. Technical reports speak of a number of interesting features. The wing tapers from root to tip and has no external bracing. At its center it is seven feet deep, and contains within its cantilever structure the engines, the fuel tanks and the pilot's cockpit. Once the machine has left the ground, the landing gear itself disappears within the wing. In flight nothing will be seen but a vast wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fokker's Predictions | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

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