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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely any one in England would think of calling Mrs. Stanley Baldwin "Lucy,"' except of course her husband, the Prime Minister. Even the smart friends of Miss Betty Baldwin, including some of London's most notorious titled set, would never refer to a "church" in her mother's presence as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Divine Providence! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

The Junior Dance, like the old gray mare, is decidedly not what it used to be. Those who remember its halcyon days will verify this statement, and can add that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUNIOR DANCE | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

The answer is probably to be found in the unique character of college life. The conception of an existence at once free from financial responsibility and separated from family ties is far from generally the case in any college; yet there is sufficient element of truth to give it a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIMELIGHT BLUES | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

From 178th Street in New York City the mightiest of suspension bridges is being built, across the Hudson River. Its span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Red Bridge | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

It is obvious of course that abnormal psychology is a subject that is loaded with dynamite: and pregnant with possibilities for the disintegration of character. It exposes the combustibles at the springs of life. When a man witnesses the transformation of a human being from a state of poised serenity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Murray Describes Department of Abnormal Psychology | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

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