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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME for Jan. 31 you say the Leviathan has started on her 301st voyage. Sloppy work, fellows. I saw the same computation in newspaper dispatches, but I thought TIME was alert enough not to fall for such an obvious example of muddleheaded mathematics. The Leviathan was built in Germany, wasn...
Talk of fortifying Singapore started almost as soon as Britain gained control of the island, but it came to little until the breakdown of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in 1921. Almost simultaneously Prime Minister David Lloyd George announced that a major naval base would be built at Singapore, years of puttering about with surveyors and dredging machines followed, but not until 1928 did work really begin. Later Australia and New Zealand, the Federated Malay States and the swarthy Sultan of Johore, whose land lies just beyond Singapore island, became sufficiently alarmed at Japanese imperialism to come through with contributions. Work...
...clock merchant father in Geneva, he made a vow that he would become a composer. Unlike most little boys, who would have made the vow and let it go at that, Bloch wrote it out on a scrap of paper, buried it under a mound of stones, built a fire over it, and mumbled incantations while he watched the burning embers...
Most influential among Belgian Catholic editors, Victor Jourdain was stunned by the tragic fallacy of his policy of pacifism when Belgium was overrun. Soured, the old man vowed never to give the Germans the satisfaction of a silent opposition. He built a trapdoor to his attic, began translating smuggled copies of London papers. Through an intermediary who used a false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin...
...velvet Poetess Elinor Wylie proposed this alternative to the ivory tower, she was not thinking of the millions who scuttle like rats and whiz like rocketing atoms through the subways of the world's great cities. The oldest of these subways are the dismalest: Boston's system, built in 1897, and Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit (1904) and Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (1913). Those most conducive to human sanity are the clean, well-lighted neatly tubular "undergrounds" of London and Buenos Aires. Proudest and most ornate is the three-year-old Moscow Metro...