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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What do I think of England and America? Rather a large question, don't you think? In America everybody seenis to be in a hurry; in England people like to take their time. And both countries seem to get there just the same! What's the use...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh Please!" Star Admits Ability to "Dress a Good Game of Golf"--England Has Little on U.S., But Home Is Home | 5/6/1927 | See Source »

...CRIMSON regrets its failure, in publishing recently the reply of Professor Frankfurter to Dean Wigmore on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, to give credit to the Boston Herald for permission to use Professor Frankfurter's statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notice | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

...Stay-at-home Englishmen have never seen a "forest" in the U. S. sense, but use this term to describe any large wooded estate, often with turf underfoot as smooth and impeccable as a lawn tennis court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grandson v. Grandfather | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Frederic James Farnell of Providence, R. I., last week reported that he had gained a measure of success in treating sleeping sickness by the use of a hypertonic solution of iodine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleeper Cure | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...thoroughgoing man, Dr. Forbes Godfrey, Minister of Health for the Canadian Province of Ontario, last week forbade the further use of roller towels in all business and public lavatories; of powder puffs and sponges in all barbershops; of wooden bedsteads in public lodging houses of the Province. Reasons, well known to U. S. dwellers among whom such hygienic measures now seem almost antediluvian: germs teem on public towels, puffs and sponges; bedbugs nest in the joints of wooden bedsteads, in the crevices of their peeling veneer, in their "antique" wormholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Canadian Hygiene | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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