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...Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen lamp turned his eyes, glazed with horror, upon the erstwhile screaming woman. They looked at each other with a wild conviction. The City of New York was utterly destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prank | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...pray, to the gods on high when the dearest of our children lies in the clutches of grim death-to her master, arbiter of her destiny and, to her, as omnipotent in this crisis as fell Death himself, but all to no purpose. "His adamant heart did not melt. The master completed the transaction." Nepal is about the size of Florida, contains about 5,500,000 people and is an entirely independent country on the north frontier of the Indian Empire. The Maharaja is not a despot, as has been circulated in the daily press. The Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Slavery Abolished | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

...professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus may the diabetes-stricken fight their malady, at some future time, with lozenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insulin Pills | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...want our American missionaries to return home and there to melt up all the heavy cannon to cast a statue of peace, to be erected, say, at the entrance to the Golden Gate. (Signed) TOKUTOMI KENJIRO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mote | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...tery, having the rigor and brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base, melt. It is used in pipe stems, fountain pens, billiard balls, telephone fixtures, cas- tanets, radiator caps, etc. In liquid form, it is a varnish. Jellied, it is a glue. Those familiar with its possibilities claim that in a few years it will be embodied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Ithaca | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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