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...Speeches and action seldom dwell together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Cambridge, which pridefully boasts on its Board of Trade welcoming sign that it leads all Massachusetts cities in industrial development--and incidentally is a world famous educational center--has yet another gem to add to its crown. Cambridge has that quality so seldom seen in cities, a conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COUNCIL CIRCLE | 5/11/1928 | See Source »

...this age of scientific enlightenment, fields that to the tyro are virtually unknown possess an importance which is seldom appreciated. Although the cause of climatology to which Professor R. DeC. Ward's Milton Fund grant is to be devoted is little known to the public, it has a constantly growing significance to the layman as well as to the scientist. Physicians, geologists, geographers, botanists, and zoologists all these use elimatology in their specialized fields and pave the way for its comprehensive use by the layman in his daily life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASSIFYING CLIMATES | 5/11/1928 | See Source »

Impartial observers thought that the Conservative Cabinet has hit upon a shrewd program, well calculated to catch votes, and probably destined to further the extremely basic interests of British industry and agriculture. The burden of the "rates" has not seldom been recklessly imposed by local authorities, and should properly become a matter of national concern. Finally the 1,000,000 workpeople who continue unemployed in Great Britain should be able to find many a job in the producing industries which Chancellor Churchill proposes to assist or partially subsidize. Therefore the votes of the unemployed and the votes of most laboring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill's Budget | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away to school. He returns and finds his parents vaguely familiar, like the clock on the mantelpiece, and about as interesting as the 1913 volumes of the Atlantic Monthly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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