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Among Harvard men a story is told. One day last year an unobtrusive man was shown into the office of President A. Lawrence Lowell in University Hall. Like a caged lion, the President was pacing back and forth and round and round, hands clasped in back. His visitor seated himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Harkness Gifts | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Immediately, Mr. Hogan was on his feet, shouting a violent protest, saying that Mr. Roberts had insulted the defense, reprimanding him for using the word "bribery" before the trial had begun. Nevertheless, presiding Judge Adolph A. Hoehling granted Mr. Roberts' motion after 20 minutes' cogitation, thereby giving the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Two Old Men | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Where indeed? Author Bakeless, scanning well the entire globe, presents a dispassionate exposition of the expansion problems of Japan, Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Next War | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Velazquez (1599-1660) because, long ago, he conceived that the plump oval face of a little Spanish prince with beady eyes would almost achieve piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: More Sargents | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

ON the 29th of December last a young man might have been seen making his way up Washington Street at a pretty rapid pace. It was the noble Fitz-Clarence De Smythe, and he was revolving a great project in his heart. In common with the other sons of '84...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

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