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Locust Point itself had great influence in turning its morons into citizens. It is like a small town without rural provincialism. Factories have always provided work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Morons into Citizens | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

At the Vumeri Hospital the cockroaches chirped, the patients rang bells, and the staff patiently waited in the sumptuous laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

The Balancing Wallendas still bring sweat from the most jaded pores, are themselves visibly relieved at the conclusion of each performance. Year and a half ago their impossible, top-heavy, quivering pyramid on the high wire brought a scream of horror from 3,000 spectators in Europe when everything toppled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: No Giasticutos, No Hyfandodge | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

As usual, super-power German stations will continue their efforts to "jam" the Soviet super-power stations which regularly attempt to broadcast Marxian & Leninist ideas throughout Europe. For the special purpose of "jamming" Moscow's broadcasts, the Polish Government built some years ago what Poles call "the most powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Scared to Death | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Since officials of the Polish Government, when conversing with non-Poles, usually speak of Pomorze as the "Corridor," TIME will continue to employ, with no disrespect to Poland, this terse, descriptive TIME-worthy term.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 6, 1933 | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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