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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days last week, 18 men, professionals all, strode in quartets and pairs over the fields of Moortown, England. Very seriously they went from Windyridge to Punchbowl, from Lone Pine to Spinney. On the second day, long before the last of them reached Home, which was the name of Moortown's 18th hole, the people that were following them knew that the British had won the Ryder golf cup. It was big news. The U. S. had been expected to win as it won two years ago.* On the first day, when the foursomes were played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ryder Cup Home | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Steel Corp. production went from 96% of capacity to 100%; entire industry from 96% to 98%. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, Pittsburgh's famed family steelmaker, declared an extra dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Again, Zoom | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...most ghostbusters is to expose the tricks performed by fake spirit mediums. Last week Ghostbuster Joseph Dunninger went a step farther. At a seance in the Manhattan offices of Science and Invention, in broad daylight, before 20 perplexed witnesses, he showed a number of "mystical" phenomena which fakers have not yet discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...same phenomena were produced after Mr. Dunninger went behind a partition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...unique member of the National Academy of Sciences addressed that sage body at its 66th annual meeting in Washington last week. She, Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 57, medium-sized and dark, is the only woman member of the Academy. Her membership went to her about five years ago after 22 years' work at Johns Hopkins (where she was a professor) for her research on blood cells, blood vessels and the lymphatic system, (histology). Now she is a member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, going deeply into the causes of tuberculosis. That is what she discoursed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: National Academy | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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