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...Government thought to aid the Opposition in making up its mind about its next move. Accordingly, it was proposed in the Consulta to pay Deputies according to the number of sittings of the Chamber which they attended. (Incidentally the cost to the country of paying Deputies would be cut some 6,000,000 lire.) The object was, of course, to deprive the Aventine Deputies of the salaries which they are still drawing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Aventine Opposition | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...there whisper trees more shadowy than any that ever stooped their boughs in Eden; gods live there and fairies, so says the brush of Mr. Hassam. Diana as Spring bursts arrowy-footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk in the Early Spring. Hand in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Adam and Eve on L. I. | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

After the Bori-McCormack concert (see Page 14) there was a startling-move in Radio Corporation of America, under which the issue shot up swiftly. In fact, the companies which are particularly connected with the radio business have almost all enjoyed a sharp rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stockmarket | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric conductor) from which a wire runs, bearing the current of the body to the quartz threads where they are stretched, shining in shadow, watched by the microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads, by whose photographed waverings the heart is studied. If the beat is regular and stout, the quartz will fluctuate in an even pattern on the photographic plate; if the heart limps the pattern, too, will vary; and its varytions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prize | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...developing his team, Coach Clark is faced with the problem of finding a capable back to take the place of Captain Kent, who graduates at Mid-Years. Coach Clark expects to move W. H. White '28 from his position at number two to fill Kent's place. Either R. A. Pinkerton '27 or F. D. Stranahan Jr. '26 will probably fill White's position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY JOINS NEW POLO LEAGUE | 1/6/1925 | See Source »