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In conjunction with the talk, a model of the development, showing the operation of the turbines and sluices with water actually flowing through them, has been set up in the students' smoking room on the first floor of Pierce Hall. The generating station, of which the model is an exact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DILLARD WILL LECTURE ON HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION | 11/12/1930 | See Source »

Bashan, "a short-haired setter" with a broad hint of Airedale, is a dog of engaging but not heroic character. A great actor, he hates to be hurt. "If he happened to have scratched his belly a little in vaulting over the fence, or sprained his foot, I have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forsyte Footnotes* | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Der Tiger Von Berlin (UFA). Disstinctly the most competent European talkie presented in the U. S. to date, Der Tiger Von Berlin is a murder mystery with German dialog and a German cast. It concerns the efforts of the Berlin police to get hold of a killer, known as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Ten million Japanese went to the polls last week in the second general election since Japan adopted universal manhood suffrage. Nearly all of them voted for Prime Minister Yuko "Shishi" (i. e. "The Lion") Hamaguchi. The Minseito, his party, gained 101 new seats (giving them 273 of the 466 parliamentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Seats For Shishi | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Agua Caliente. In 1922 Gene Sarazen was sitting on a rail fence behind the clubhouse at Skokie when someone came running out to tell him that Walter Hagen was half way around and breaking the course record. Sarazen, then 21, lately a caddy, was unconcerned. "Well, I've got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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