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...someone put Christmas light flashers in all the Yard lanterns. It seems that the "Yard cops" (now University Police) had, in the days before radios, been in the habit of switching these lights on and off to summon assistance When the lights came on that evening in the late 1920s, portly gentlemen in blue could be seen puffing from one corner of the Yard to another, anxiously seeking whichever colleague it was who required their...
...film describes the career of a promising young baseball player in the early 1920s whose glorious future is seemingly shattered in a brutal event. The player, Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford) returns to baseball 16 years later to play for the last place, bumbling New York Knights. The story is one of Hobbs' spectacular comeback, his momentary rise, agonizing crash, and heroic reemergence...
...recognition that the cell is the fundamental unit of most living things. This fundamental insight was incorporated into medicine by Virchow. Bernard and other Europeans, and became the scientific basis of medicine for the next hundred years. In fact, even today the concepts developed between 1850 and the mid 1920s still form the chief scientific base of medicine...
Hammer is an old hand at working with governments nervous about outsiders. In the 1920s he struck business deals with the fledgling Soviet state, and to this day Moscow holds Hammer in the highest trust. Two weeks ago, Hammer asked the Kremlin for permission to make a short cut across the Soviet Union to Peking from London, where he had been dining with Prince Charles. The unusual request was swiftly granted...
Supply-siders point out that the amount of tax paid by the rich jumped after Presidents Harding and Coolidge cut tax rates in the 1920s and after Kennedy and Johnson did so in the early 1960s. Between 1963 and 1965 the maximum tax rate dropped from 91% to 70%, but revenues from households with incomes of $100,000 or more rose from $2.5 billion to $3.8 billion. The percentage of taxes paid by the 5% of taxpayers with the highest incomes increased from 35.6% to 38.5%. Observes Roberts: "This has always happened in our history...