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Investigation has revealed that the only reason for ringing the chapel bell each morning is that all responsible agent, tradition. Alexander, the janitor of Memorial Church, In answer to questions on the subject, replied, "It's just like my having to ring it with a rope instead of by electricity; they always have rung the Chapel bell that way so they probably always will, even in this new building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/7/1933 | See Source »

...theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them he can weave a strong rope and climb to understanding of life itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists in Chicago | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson, identified with the whole Roosevelt program, will oppose him on his next senatorial campaign. Schallisms: "NRA no longer stands for National Recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Dead Cats | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...huge project, to send a 2,000-mi. rope of roads and railways clear across China at a cost of $50,000,000 gold. It might start from Peiping, dangerously near the Manchukuo border and greedy Japanese eyes; or it might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Life Line | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...Manhasset, L. I., Joseph Smithanna, marine patrolman, putt-putted out to rescue 250-lb. Vera Nielson, struggled manfully to pull her into his boat, failed. Nothing daunted, small Patrolman Smithanna slung a rope around large, patient Vera Nielson, towed her to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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