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Physical and intellectual benefits would result from fewer laboratory hours. This reduction might be effected by a slight decrease of the laboratory of each course, by slightly less ambitious objectives for the ground to be covered by experiments. It might more feasibly be effected by a reduction in the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PITY THE POOR CHEMIST | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

All this was a good story, but the facts, as they belatedly emerged, left it nothing but a cock-and-bull story-except for the tremendous fact that the Chancellor of Austria and the Chancellor of Germany did secretly meet and negotiated a most vital accord which they further agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Windows Opened | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Exploring a "strange, half-lighted world," FORTUNE found that the contraceptive industry was one "with an enormous social responsibility" which "on the whole" it failed to meet. FORTUNE discovered that the contraceptive business amounts to $250,000,000 a year, which is "slightly bigger than the barbershop business and very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Controller | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Next day Bermuda papers, which up to this time had suppressed completely a story that was being printed all over the world, had to carry it at last when the Bishop of Bermuda came out with a statement publicly castigating himself: "The Bishop regrets that, yielding to a sudden impulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Loved a Lady | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mexican Wages | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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