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...Roll call is taken at meeting time after school, and anyone failing to answer is denied membership privileges. Most of the organizations plan to keep about 20 active members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Gangs | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

George Eastman whose perfection, in 1884, of the first practical roll film made the $1,500,000,000 motion picture industry possible, still lives at Rochester, N. Y., busy industrial city at the falls of the Genesee River. At 72, he has given away more than $58,000,000 -to the University of Rochester including its medical school and its Eastman School of Music; to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. He has also financed scientific expeditions (Time, March 22, 1926), research in electrolytic deposition of colloidal rubber (TIME, Nov. 8). At present his research staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion & a Half | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Living Dead Man is aFrench film based on Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal. The amazing absurdities of the philosophical deadhead who would live, love and be irresponsible, somehow hold the screen version together in an amusing roll-and-tumble that is neither slapstick nor brilliant comedy. That Pirandello's satirical quibbles of intangibility should have been considered for picturization is even more astounding than the film's partial success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Plymouth--"The Little Spitfire"--8:20 o'clock--Extry poipuh! Follies goil getsa guy widda roll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...mail-clad mammal, order Edentata, family Dasypodidae, native to Central and South American plains and forests. The largest species reaches one yard in length. Nocturnal, omnivorous, armadillos do not fight but burrow rapidly or roll up into bony balls when attacked. Armadillos lately came to fame in the U. S., when one was presented to President Coolidge. The little known fact then came to light that the armadillo has young in litters of four, all of the same sex, be it male or female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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