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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cancer (crab), June 22 to July 23, governed by the Moon. Those folk are clearly divided into two types. The active ones take a poetic view of the universe. They love to be made martyrs; ridicule makes them even more active, although they feel it personally. The passive type is sentimental, full of stagnant platitudes, lazy. Both types tend to become fleshy with years, should watch their digestive systems. Under this sign were born Calvin Coolidge, William Edgar Borah, Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, John D.. Rockefeller Sr., Jack Dempsey, the late Lord Northcliffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Salty observers noted that speed was the keynote. Slim mahogany hydroplanes to carry a half dozen slightly bewildered passengers were credited with 55 miles per hour. Large lumberers of the cruiser type were ticketed to do 25. Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h. Oldsters recalled how very few years ago it was when none but the maddest special speed boats ran over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Boat | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Timken Roller Bearing Co. (roller bearings for every type of vehicle on wheels) -$9,500,000. That was the amount named by Vice President William R. Timken. He, four brothers and their father began the company in 1904 with $100,000 capital. Its assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Earnings: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...like comedy, especially the type in which I am playing now. It is meant for a small theatre, where the actors can be more intimate with the audience. When a contact of this kind is made, for some reason or the other the play always seems to go off much better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ladies "Fail to Register" on Jokes Written in Golf Jargon Says Frank Craven--To "Stick to" His Drama Form Comedy | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...twins pointed out that there have been three distinct differences in the last three generations in Germany. "The first group, composed of our fathers, had was the pre-war type of German. Then came the 'father-murderers' of the next generation who were the most revolutionary type. The world war broke into the most formative part of their lives; it stirred them up and made them more aggressive. It was they who created the revolution and invented expressionism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN SPEAKERS BOOST WORLD YOUTH MOVEMENT | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

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