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To Isidor Kresel there was a more important question involved. Once during the trial when the prosecutor fired questions so fast that he had no time to amplify his answers, Kresel had started from the witness chair with tears in his eyes. "Give me a chance. I'm fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conviction of Counsel | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

The lectures, seldom more than two a week, ably amplify and analyse the reading, casting ample light upon the eccentricities of the writers. Made the more enjoyable by the reading of short pieces of prose interspersed among the more facts of the work these talks illustrate the authors in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/22/1933 | See Source »

Harvard's new observatory will contain a 61-in. telescope, as will the University of Toronto's new Dunlap Observatory. For a half dozen years those will rank as the world's fourth largest instruments, after Carnegie Institution's 100-in. telescope at Mount Wilson, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Astronomers in a Wood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

Please amplify.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

To amplify his objections he called a camp stenographer and dictated a 2,500-word letter to Herbert Samuel Crocker, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ardent advocate of a big public works program.* A courier sped the letter to Washington where Secretary of the Treasury Mills checked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Fearful Price | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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