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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...village, unmentioned by maps, containing 152 inhabitants, none of whom had ever heard of the outside world. They wore clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lost Found | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Arnheim, Holland, Aeneas Alexander Mackay, 13th Baron Reay, Chief of the Scottish Clan of Mackay, self-exiled in the Netherlands because of a feud between his ancestors and Charles (1600-1649), summoned his relatives to celebrate his "coming of age." Proud, they beheld him stand before them, 6 ft., 9 in. in his stockings, "the tallest peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Apparently it is. That extraordinary man, whose family have supplied the "Mayors of the Palace"* to the present Rumanian dynasty since its inception (1866), is not now Premier, but Premier General Averescu is universally admitted to be his puppet. The Bratiano clan controls the oil and much of the industry of Rumania. More vitally it controls the indescribably corrupt electoral machinery of Rumania by which new parties achieve overwhelming majorities and old ones are wiped out by the figurative pressure of a button: the button connecting the residence of Jon Bratiano by private telephone with the office of the Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mayor of the Palace | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...University Seconds will face the Four Rivers Juniors. The Seconds are slow in rounding into form; their sole victory to date is a 2 to 1 win over Bridgewater Normal School, while Northeastern and Clan Lindsay have taken their measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS SET FOR WILLIAMS CLASH | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

Captain Beals' Seconds staged a fast attack against the Clan Lindsay aggregation, but the visitors' greater experience gave them a different advantage over the Seconds, many of whom are playing soccer for the first time, this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE SOCCER TEAMS WIN, TIE, AND LOSE | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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