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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Lipshutz categorized as follows: "The first group was the social group. Nice-young-men-from-good-families, who made up the more decorative part of the student body. . . . Group number two, quite as definite, was the wicked group- an off-colour mixture of boys from all races and all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Epitaph on Learning | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Paper. If the army of woodsmen led by mighty Paul Bunyan invaded Canada to chop down 80,000,000 cords of pulpwood, they would take so long that by the time the wood was pressed into pulp and paper new forests would have sprung up. For this reason three Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

The architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light and air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

2) The higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

It is an axiom of professional tennis that Kozeluh can be beaten by any player who scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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