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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...percentage after 6 p. m. is as high as 50% to 70%. †Dr. O'Callaghan is a tactful scholar. In the following manner he cheers both fundamentalists and evolutionists : "YOUR GRANDAD WAS EITHER A MAN OR A MONKEY-Take your choice-but if you write to the MAN give us the STREET and NUMBER, and if you write to the MONKEY, give us the TREE and LIMB." His title of "Doctor" is no nickname. He is a graduate of the medical school of the University of Tennessee. During the influenza epidemic, he left his postoffice and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Advertiser, Humanizer | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are grown-ups now. Oddly enough, they had been simultaneously moved to write about their boyhoods. Neither improves on Mark Twain's version, but autobiography is always edifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: Did you know that we have in England - magazine called Time and Tide? Many of your readers, I am sure, would be interested in a description of this paper which I would be glad to write and send you for a modest compensation. John Oscarson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Business is no uncharted field for Dr. Cabot. It was he who encouraged Sidney Howard (now playwright) to work up and write The Labor Spy; he who helped institute the case system at Dean Donham's Harvard School of Business Administration. He recommends: enforcement of industrial codes by voluntary arbitration boards, the codes to embody the "maximum ethics" of Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

This for one trail. If one associates himself with a trail system of any size, he will find so many problems and matters of interest that they will exclude every other activity if given rein. The lore and the lure of the trail are equally endless. The write can testify that one may spend years on the matter of trail signs, always finding it interesting and always learning something new. For no one yet knows the best type of sign for trails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Mountain Trail Pioneers Battle All the Forces of Nature | 12/21/1926 | See Source »

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