Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his magnum opus, Faust, which he began in his 20s and worked over repeatedly until just before his death at 82, Goethe raised a poetic monument to himself that is comparable to those of England's Shakespeare and Italy's Dante. An ardent sideline scientist (he discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest...
...from Missouri. Ben Jones is not the first famous horse trainer from Missouri. In the '20s a close-mouthed man from Independence, superstitious Sam Hildreth, worked wonders with Sinclair's Rancocas horses...
...Foreign Minister (1932-37); after long illness; in Santiago, Chile. Cruchaga earned the nickname "Don Palomo" (Mr. Dove) for his peace efforts (he helped settle the Chaco War in 1935, arranged the resumption of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican after the religious persecutions of the late '20s...
...LIFE senior writer, tells what manner of man Brit Hadden was. The informal portrait, lit with humor, shows a husky, mustached young man with intense grey eyes, enormous curiosity and vitality, and a huge capacity for work, play and horseplay. In his life & time (and the extravagant, turbulent '20s were all the time he had) his impact on U.S. journalism was as forceful...
...business manager. There, thanks to Luce and Circulation Manager (now president) RoyLarsen, he found things in such good shape that he was bored. As one outlet for his restless energy, Hadden started Tide (later sold), partly, says Busch, for the purpose of heckling TIME. By the late '20s TIME (circulation: 200,000) was so profitable that the partners could plan further expansion. Luce had advanced the idea for FORTUNE, and in his little notebook Hadden had jotted down ideas for a handful of other magazines...