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...Broadways of the U. S. will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park, N. J., to Dearborn, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Golden Jubilee | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...base of Pike's Peak, last week, Bill Williams of Rio Hondo, Tex., started to nose-push a peanut. His purpose: To push it to the top. Mr. Williams acquired his nose-pushing habit last year when he lost an election bet on Alfred Emanuel Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...credit, but it cannot tell individuals and corporations what they can do with their capital. Thus Mr. Simmons on loans to brokers, and soundly thus, in so far as there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks and loans from corporations. But whether it is legitimate to push that difference so far as to label a bank loan Credit and a corporation loan Capital is a point upon which many a banker would gag, sputter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital v. Credit | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...snowballed him on the street he prosecuted relentlessly, and he could not be appeased until a considerable fine was imposed; but he paid the fine himself. Many a bold push was made to ascertain his age; yet, however suddenly the question came, or however craftily one crept from date to date, there was a uniform lack of success. "I see Allibone's Dictionary says you were born in 1805," a gentleman remarked. "Some statements have been nearer, and some have been farther from the truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...absolute Government monopoly is the "B.B.C." (British Broadcasting Corporation), so absolute, in fact, that it haughtily refused to announce the names of "popular pieces" played by London orchestras, on the ground that unscrupulous conductors have sometimes taken money to push new compositions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breathless Behns | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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