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Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Illinois | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Piemeisel and L. W. Kephart of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, who had been nine months questing for grass in Africa, returned with 160 varieties. They had suffered from extreme cold in the highlands of Kenya and Tanganyika, had gathered grass seeds within sight of glaciers 200 feet thick, had faced down an elephant in a bamboo jungle, had brought back with them samples of 75% of all the forage grasses of the region. Their hope is to lengthen the season of green pastures throughout the land, thereby reducing the cost of livestock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Green Grass | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...lobsters thick as thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alice in Wonderland | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...thick snow, softly falling, added serenity to the high occasion, which was no less than the installation of Justinian Cardinal Szeredy (TIME, Jan. 2) as Primate of Hungary, an office which carries with it the rank of Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Potter's Son | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Midsummer-Night's Dream actually put me in a dream in which I saw Oberon, Titania and the fairies. I heard a lot of pizzicat in the Scheherazade. The first and middle part made me think of caramel sauce, thick and gummy!" (aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Children's Re-actions | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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