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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rays to describe and measure the atoms and molecules of crystals. As is expected of new B. A. A. S. presidents, Sir William stated his scientific credo: "There are some who think that science is inhuman. They speak as though students of modern science would destroy reverence and faith. I do not know how that can be said of the student who stands daily in the presence of what seems to him to be the Infinite. Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together." In this he took a view opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Parents attending a local Soviet meeting at Leningrad, last week, voted in the proportion of 7 to 3 that it is right to destroy imbecile infants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Soviet Notes | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with the champagne you make, your money will be returned to you. "If you are not satisfied, we will send a man to destroy the champagne and he will give you a check. "If you spoil it through your own negligence, you get your money back. "If your idea of good champagne is peculiar, you get your money back. "If for any reason, or for no reason at all, you are not satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fizz Water | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...luggage will consist largely of an arsenical arsenal: six different arsenical compounds which have already been tried on animals, found superior to Bayer 205.*Best of them all is Arsenical No. 130, in which tear gas aids and abets arsenic to destroy the trypanosomes, restoring the sufferer to normalcy. Dr. Clement C. Chesterman, who has spent years in the Belgian Congo, will cooperate with Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas to turn the jungle into a vast clinic, inoculating thousands of infected natives and animals with the drugs. They will follow epidemics around Africa, maintaining a base at Leopoldville, Congo capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tsetse Fly | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...Wildwood golfers were not amused. They caused the golf hawk's capture and petitioned their directors to destroy both bird and nest. It was then that this flatland fable became historical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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