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...hell first. ... Do you suppose I enjoyed seeing my life-work made trivial and ridiculous? I was an inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute? I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Edison Enters Heaven | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...prohibition question, the gist of the matter is contained in clause 5. I believe that temperance can best be secured through the incidence of taxation. If liquors were very expensive and light wines very cheap, we should witness an extraordinary change in the habits of the population. Ellery Sedgwick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/11/1930 | See Source »

...Gateway to the South, in addition to leading the World in 17 industries, has a cheaper taxi rate than the "cheapest in the U. S." mentioned on p. 18 of your issue of Feb. 24. Here, the tariff is two miles for 25C and "Four Can Ride As Cheap As One" so bring the family when you come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...President is setting up a straw man merely for the purpose of knocking him down. His own secretary could have warned him against such a cheap exhibition of partisan politics. I say deliberately that nothing more shameless has emanated from the White House in my 30 years' service in Congress. ... I can scarcely trust myself temperately to characterize an astonishing performance of this kind by the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President v. Senate | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Chicago, Catherine Torpey received a beating for her failure to fry eggs on ice, a cheap method which her husband had seen practiced by a magician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sneezer's Chance | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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