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...very ancient lineage," which measures "the dignity of his attainment"-he, Professor Lull, is himself an example of the dignity of that attainment: a "fine physical specimen," over 6 ft. in height, sturdy, straight as an arrow, with regular features, a high arching forehead, a keen mind, soft spoken (although suffering, like Edison, from deafness), courteous, kindly, possessed of a sense of humor-all the attributes commonly thought of as the height of human attainment. At Rutgers he was the Homer Hazel† of his day-a great shot putter, a sturdy footballer. He came forward and presented the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whence Man? | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...Food and soft drinks will be distributed in liberal quantities to all participants and spectators. The Class Committee issued a statement last night that it expected all members of the class of 1925 to plan to be present on this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS WILL PICNIC THIS YEAR BEHIND LOCKED GATES | 5/28/1925 | See Source »

...defending his action, caustically declared at that time that nobody believed it was going to be an active statute. Governor Peay, however, had his tongue in his cheek all the while it now appears. Professor J. T. Scopes, a scientist, is one of the first to realize that the soft spoken Fundamentalists were not so playful as they pretended, for before he knew it he found himself arrested to face a charge of violating a state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO THE JUNGLE! | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

Some time ago, the union miners in the bituminous coal fields enacted high-wage contracts with the operators. As a result, operating costs in the union soft coal fields shot up; and competition has proved difficult with the non-union fields of West Virginia, where lower costs enable operators to cut prices to consumers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bank Failure | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...hats. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald came in a soft felt and a lounge suit, a fact which brought joy to the shires but caused a slight depression on the Exchange. Lords and ladies, Knights and gentlemen, they saw pictures that pleased them-suave specimens of super-photography in oil, executed by the hand of man, unassisted by any machine. Sir John Lavery's adept portraits of George Bernard Shaw, of Jockey Steve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In London | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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