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"Faces of the Month" and "A Budget for a $25,000 Income in Chicago" were self-explanatory lesser features toward the back-of-the-book in Vol. 1, No. 1, where a magnificent forest of advertisements arose. Hearing that a "most beautiful magazine in America" was forthcoming, advertisers had flocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fortune | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

Generally speaking however, it would appear that there are two obstacles which hinder an examiner from doing his best job. On the one hand, as most professors have assistants correct their papers for them, they have often no conception of how well the average student has assimilated the lectures or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAMINATIONS | 1/22/1930 | See Source »

* As Wagon-Lits of the International Sleeping Car Company enter Lithuania the attendant in each car covers with a black cloth the map adjacent to the lavatory which shows Vilna to be in fact a part of Poland. He thus spares the feelings of Lithuanians, forestalls riots.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quick Council | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Few indeed are the social errors which can not be apologized for via this most recent time-saver, which covers a veritable multitude of sins, among them "riding to bounds in a ballroom", "dismantling plumbing fixtures", "throwing potted palms", "setting fire to footmen", and "deposing mural moosehead in punch". Others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Barnums Promote Novelty to Aid Harvard's Socially Delinquent--Claim Card is "Most Hilarious Fad of 1930" | 1/15/1930 | See Source »

Inside equipment has been altered and refined. Flower vases are now in the Greek manner; many-hued rayon-silk covers the seats; Egyptian sculpture motives have been adapted for dashboard instruments; vivid soda-fountain marble is used for gear shift handles. With the introduction of non-dulling, non-rusting chrome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art on Wheels | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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