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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adultery. 7th: Thou shalt not steal. Am I out-of-date? Have the Commandments been shifted? If so, by whom? when? why? To supremely subtle, sublimely succinct, superlatively sane TIME I turn for correct information. J. J. SHERLOCK Hollywood, Calif. Unless Subscriber Sherlock learned his commandments from the Vatican account of Exodus, he has forgotten his early schooling. In Bible texts today, Deuteronomy & Exodus concur: 6th: murder 7th: adultery 8th: stealing-ED. Secretary Morton

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Derby, Instructor in English, to assist in the preparation for publication of a definitive account of the life of Francis, Lord Jeffrey, 1773 1850 (Editor of "Edinburgh Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILTON FUNDS AIDS GIVEN PROFESSORS FOR SPECIAL WORK | 4/3/1929 | See Source »

...history of Harvard football from the first interclass game in 1827 up to the present time is now being written by George Owen '23, and E. H. Dewey '26, instructor in English. The date for publication has not yet been determined but on account of the extent of the book it is doubtful whether the volume will be out before next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY OF FOOTBALL AT HARVARD TO BE COMPILED | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Antarctic Wind | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...ground and acknowledge themselves beaten. They retreat before the victors who have lost as many men, if not more. Neither one side nor the other side knows when they withdraw what its own losses have been nor how heavy those of the opposing force. Therefore, it is not on account of material damage, still less from any possible computation of the figures, that the losers give up the struggle. The will to conquer sweeps all before it. There is a psychological phenomenon in great battles which explains and determines their results. The moral factor is the most important element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Glory to Foch | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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