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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Digestive Discomfort." Physicians of Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital thumped and scrutinized the President-Elect, last week, paying particular attention to his stomach. Señora Rubio was inspected by other doctors. The rest of the President-Elect's party slept in 14 rooms at the Hotel Belvedere. In Mexico the public had been led to suppose that something fairly serious is the matter with the stomach of the man they have elected President. But Dr. Charles R. Sutrian of Johns Hopkins curtly dispelled this illusion. "Examination shows a certain amount of digestive discomfort," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...ancestral London townhouse, who likes the 20th Century so well that he suddenly finds himself back in it in the person of his great-great-grandfather. But while he has the visage of this distant sire, he retains his own 20th Century consciousness, which makes for much discomfort and disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Those who established the present faculty rule in regard to the time of starting of football games no doubt had a laudable purpose in view; but their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWILIGHT THOUGHTS | 10/25/1929 | See Source »

Negroes from North Carolina, coal miners from Indiana, a detachment from the Chicago Board of Trade, another composed of Oklahoma Indians, a mud-covered dozen of doughboys from Chattanooga (advertising war's discomfort), these and others to the number of 35,000 marched and countermarched last week in Louisville, Ky. at the American Legion's eleventh annual convention, a record-breaker both for spectators and for excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Legion in Louisville | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...high), because to travel higher would require too heavy elevator cables and because the cars would be required to travel more than 1,500 feet a minute. Although mine elevators travel faster than that, higher speeds bother the human ear drums, and passengers in commercial buildings would not endure discomfort. At present fastest buildings elevators go 750 feet a minute. So Mr. Kingston drew plans for several smaller buildings. For each type his co-workers figured construction and operating costs. Mr. Clark studied their information and discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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