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Conceivably, Premier Aberhart might have maintained Alberta's financial honor by borrowing from the Dominion Treasury, which has already lent Alberta $26,000,000. Conceivably. Dominion Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning might have exercised his right to use Dominion dollars to pay off Alberta's debts. Neither Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Refinance & Raptures | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Meantime Marius' household pursues its usual temperamental tenor. The five disciples hate each other, scribble notes for their forthcoming biographies (they all know Marius is dying), try to maneuver the sick man into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Consequences | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Memorial Hall's clock started scratching yesterday from an annual attack of spring fever and the result of the maneuver was loss of eight minutes and the discombobulation of several classes.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANNUAL ILLS OF MEM HALL CLOCK LEAVE APTED CALM | 3/13/1936 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Bridges published in Science further researches with charts clearly showing a gene maneuver associated with the appearance of abnormally small eyes in the fly. This mutation, discovered in 1913, was christened "Bar." Some true-breeding strains showing the Bar mutant developed other mutations in which the eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genes Seen? | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

First maneuver in sumo is rigidly conventional. Both wrestlers crouch at opposite sides of the arena awaiting the charge. When one wrestler charges, his opponent, if unprepared, may say "matta!" (wait). For 300 years the rules permitted Japanese wrestlers thus to delay the beginning of their bouts as long as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sumo | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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