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Dates: during 1930-1930
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First to make any strong assault was Germany's Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), who stated that Time is a dimension. Following him came Germany's Albert Einstein with his relativity laws. England's Arthur Stanley Eddington in The Nature of the Physical World told man that his reckoning of Time was misleading ; that the age of man could not be accurately determined by the time given by the Astronomer Royal. Two individuals, he said, one firmly rooted to the earth, the other skipping from planet to planet, would not age at the same rate. While the static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Times? | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Stony Point, N. Y., State Trooper Arthur Kley gave chase to Evelyn McMillan who, when arrested for speeding, asserted that she had mistaken his uniform for the regalia of a cowboy, had feared an assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Sincere | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...Louis, police found onetime bank president Elwyn Bentley, 60, sitting in his expensive hotel room beside a dental kit, charged by Mildred Rankin with having unnecessarily pulled three teeth out of her head. Arrested for practicing dentistry without a license and for common assault, Elwyn Bentley confessed that he had pulled teeth out of 200 women. Said he: "I guess I get a thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dopes | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...formidable assault upon personal liberty, this Soviet program, and a bold assertion of the absolute supremacy of the State. Strange it is that many of the so-called 'liberals' both in Europe and in this country remain blind to the real meaning of the 'Russian Experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karpovich Attacks Policies of Russian Soviet Political Bosses | 2/27/1930 | See Source »

...Among them: that he called Vestryman Charles A. Brown "perjurer, liar, moral pervert, trickster;" that he attempted to extort $10,000 from Bishop Mackay-Smith under threat of publishing some of the Bishop's letters to him; that he committed assault and battery on one Anna Phillips; that he charged Parishioner Edward Matlack with being a thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Militant Preacher | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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