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Last week was chrysanthemum time in Japan. The islands were almost as lovely as in the cherry-blossom season. The annual chrysanthemum season, coincident with the anniversary of the late Emperor Meiji's birthday, was celebrated all over Japan with especial excitement: Emperor Hirohito chose it to mark the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Eight Directions, One Sky | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Only four new Freshmen find themselves in Group I this year. Group II has '35, Group III, 131. Coincident with the rise of marks of C this year, Groups IV, V, and VI show an increase, rising to 59.5 per cent from last year's 58.1 per cent. Incomplete or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Midyear Marks Show New Trend Toward Mediocrity | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

Coincident with the arrival in the U. S. of a copy of the 724-year-old Magna Charta (see p. 77), Connecticut last week became the 48th State to ratify the 150-year-old Bill of Rights (first ten amendments) of the U. S. Constitution. Urging the State Senate'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECTICUT: Time | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Coincident with the British plan for withdrawing foreign fighters came a report from a veteran correspondent with the Leftists, New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, that the Barcelona Government has dismissed its two remaining international divisional commanders, has given orders that all international brigade commanders are also to be relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Feeble Palliative | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Coincident with the opening of the looth session of the League of Nations Council, the Ethiopian Legation in London announced that during the past two months Ethiopians have killed 6,009 Italians and Italian-trained askaris. This was presumably an exaggeration for diplomatic effect. As Italians were quick to point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Government by Bombs | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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