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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then they rested on a rock...

Author: By D. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/18/1930 | See Source »

Micro-Sticks & Stones. A graphic phrase, "micro-sticks and micro-stones," the U. S. Weather Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. Meeting (Cont.) | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...under the surface. The best a geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that of 170 wells recently drilled, geologists indicated 157. Only 13 were wildcats.-Oklahoma's Charles Newton Gould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. Meeting (Cont.) | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...hard ball flying like a trapped bird in a courtyard with smooth stone walls, its floor marked into divisions by lines and trod by leaping black-haired men-such was the game the oldtime Aztecs played and drew pictures of on the rock walls of Central American amphitheatres. Hernan Cortes took it back to Andalusia, whence it penetrated the Pyrenees and the people called it pelota (ball). The game became the main diversion of so many festivals that the Basques gave it another name, now mispronounced all over the world, meaning "merry festival"-jai alai (pronounced high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jai Alai | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...Families, for if Lowells and Cabots dominate Boston, it may be said in Cincinnati that Tafts speak only to Longworths. Half-brother of the 27th President of the U. S.. a philanthropist and pillar of right in his community, Publisher Taft dedicated his paper to conservative, rock-ribbed Republicanism and civic virtue. A monument to the old, tried order of things was the Times-Star right up to Publisher Taft's death last fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taft's Times-Star | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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