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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this harvest year may reach $13,000.000,000, which is an increase of over $3,000,000,000 in three years. It compares with $7,100,-000,000 in 1913; and, if we make deduction from the figures of 1924 for the comparatively decreased value of the dollar, the yield this year still exceeds 1913 in purchasing power by over $1,000,000,000; and in this interval there has been no increase in the number of farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Message | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

...case of rats. His new experiments indicate that the spleen can be transplanted in the case of certain lower forms of animal life, and perhaps in rats. Since the exact function of this organ in the human being is not yet definitely known, the experiments of Dr. Koppanyi may yield information on this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Transplant Spleen? | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

...Walter Page, before the War, was able to see that this great Empire, owing to its conscious diversity, was likely to yield more and more to a compact Empire. It is no use to pretend that America does not at this time profoundly influence us and the Empire. We knew we have yielded the position of leadership to America in connection with the work designed for the higher service of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Punches with Kicks | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...collection. On the other hand, she did not love him even as much as she loved her husband, Michael, Wilfrid's best friend. She tried for a long while to eat her cake and have it too. Wilfrid would deliver ultimata-demanding that she yield "now or never." Somehow, it never seemed to be either. He told Michael all about it. Relationships grew increasingly strained, until finally something snapped and Wilfrid left for Jericho. The older generation is chiefly represented by Michael's father, Sir Lawrence Mont, ninth baronet, and old Soames Forsyte, collector of pictures. Catastrophe overtook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Galsworthy Appraises the Post-War Generation | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...minister, known to a neighborly countryside as "Uncle Henry,"was part owner of a county newspaper, and the son learned printing along with tilling as he grew to manhood. When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel and hogs at 2 3/4c...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Husbandman | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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