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...only in duration, Washington's later life was a continuing retreat, according to a distinguished friend of the Founder, who said in a public eulogy: "He devoted the remainder of his precious life to a commendable self-review of it; a review for which every wise man, know ing his accountability to a Sovereign Judge, should allot time and make opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...father to sign my application with me. While he went into the bureau office with me my mother drove our car around the block once, because she was unable to park. When she drove up in front of the office again, my father and I were wait ing for her and I was a full-fledged Indiana driver, 50? poorer. It took me a grand total of live minutes to acquire my license and I was asked only one question: "Have you ever, in any State, been issued a driving permit?" My answer was "No." Please tell me when that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...trick is to ignite the match without call-ing it to the attention of the victim. That is where Jack's cigar comes in. Striking a match to ignite the "hot foot" would make a noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

During the spring and summer whoop-ing-cough season of 1935 Miller-main-tained chimpanzees "Herbert H," "Becky," "Darby," "Joan" & friends were infected with sputum from the throats of whooping Baltimore children. Evidence indicated that the whooping-cough germ requires a virus to lead the way into the air passages before the disease breaks out. That virus seemed to be the same virus implicated in the common cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whooping News | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

After three years Mr. Kent was able to buy a one-cylinder automobile, "not being married and not having to conserve cash," he explains. From the ignition trouble in that car dates the rise of Kent. Develop ing an ignition system of his own, which earned him a Franklin Institute award in 1914, he proceeded to make Atwater Kent synonymous with good electrical equipment on the pre-War U. S. automobile. Self-starters and lighting systems followed logically. By 1917 Atwater Kent was big enough to get special Army orders for precision war tools like fuse setters, machine-gun sights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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