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...Tsar Boris and Tsaritsa loanna, most impoverished of European royalties. At all events it has proved a highly popular habit with their subjects. In Sofia again loanna went with Boris to the gold-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral to honor Saint Cyril who helped to invent the Cyrillic (Modified Greek) alphabet. All in a row before the cathedral stood the Cabinet of the new Premier, Kimon Gueorguieff. Crowds regarded the Cabinet coolly, but a roar like a rolling breaker followed the progress of the Tsar and his Queen from the palace to the cathedral and back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Cakes & Opium | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...perfectly normal eye reflex; thirdly, he never stands at such a distance from the operating field that he works stiff-armed; fourthly, doctors don't interrogate each other as to the properties of morphine-that is analogous to asking someone what letter follows "A" in the alphabet; fifthly, there is not a hospital to be found where even a mere interne doesn't know the difference between diabetic coma and insulin shock-no argument necessary, there are just about ten good signs to differentiate the law hastly, residents aren't ever that good handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1934 | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...York State Chamber of Commerce in which he said: "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars." When the letter appeared in the New Outlook for December, it was accompanied by an editorial in which Editor Smith compared the Administration to an absent-minded professor playing "anagrams with alphabet soup.'' Such advertising, however, helped to run the New Outlook's circulation up from 85,000 to 200,000. Last week, for the first time since he joined the New Outlook, Al Smith made news of another sort. Gist of the news was contained in two letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Best Wishes & Best Wishes | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...State law. But almost any Illini can tell the stranger where to get a pint of "corn." And the young philosophy and romance which burgeon in a luxurious Student Union, in 124 dormitories, fraternity & sorority houses and in Fords parked amid the cornfields would be familiar as the alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Engineer at Illinois | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...mere maintenance of government pay cuts is going to balance the budget in 1936. The CWA will have to go, and the rest of the new alphabet, and with it all the rabbits which have been pulled out of the hat since March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 3/10/1934 | See Source »

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