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But the conjecture market is still as lively as ever. Why were these gratuitous prophecies made so early and so positively? There is at least one plausible answer. Perhaps their object is to put a damper on insurgents within the Republican ranks. These rebels, attracted by the vigor of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENTIFIC PLAYING | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

Neither Siki nor McTigue showed sufficient skill or savagery to warrant the championship. The early rounds of the fight bored the crowd although their favorite, McTigue, was steadily outpointing the black champion. Siki showed commendable courage but a technical ignorance of his profession. The 17th round roused the Celtic spectators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: McTigue-Siki | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

The most inveterate "fan" will stop to examine the posters before entering a moving-picture theatre, but the occasional "movie-goers" exhibit far greater care in their selections. They even peruse the papers to assure themselves of a congenial evening's entertainment, needless to say, their interests differ widely: followers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOWING THE GOODS | 3/13/1923 | See Source »

The appeal of the book is extremely limited. To the general reader it is bound to be about equally dull, confusing, ridiculous, and shocking. It is a book compounded in equal parts of the most painfully literal and the most elusively symbolic. The combination is a shade trying. And there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Book of New Aspects* | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

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