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...alarm," he said. "I myself have been growing more alarmed month by month as the volcano has not erupted. The nature of its volcanic structure is such that it should erupt at a regular three-monthly period. Recently it has lagged behind its period for five months; and I confess to having felt great uneasiness lest the period should stretch to a year or more. In that case the eruption, when it came, would have taken place with terrific violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Disasters | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

Super-scareheads frightened many citizens of Budapest: "CHIEF OF POLICE NADOSSY AND PRINCE WINDISCH-GRAETZ TEARFULLY CONFESS TO COUNTERFEITING 30,000,000,000 FRENCH FRANCS! Possible Fascist Putsch to Set up Archduke Albrecht of Hapsburg as Kaiser of Hungary Nipped by French Detectives! Premier Count Stephen Bethlen Believed Well Pleased at Developments, Which May Discredit His Rival, the Regent of Hungary, Nicholas Horthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Counterfeiters | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...happiness the end of life? Is evolution incompatible with religion? My wife wants to bob her hair-how can I stop her? Should people about to marry confess to each other? What is the soul? Is a lie ever justifiable? Should there be universal birth control? How? Why? When? Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Oracle | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...therefore desire to retract said statement and attack upon the administration of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and upon the character of Jim Ferguson. I freely admit and acknowledge, confess and declare that my said statement in reference to Governor Ferguson and Jim Ferguson is not true in whole or in part, and my statement above quoted and printed in The Crusader was made without any foundation in fact or upon any excuse that would justify me in making the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Gospel of Truth | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

These suggestions, while exceedingly simple, have their indubitable efficacy to recommend them. In honesty, however, the CRIMSON must confess that the idea is not original, but was borrowed from Coach Zuppke, head trainer of Red Grange and the Illini. After his victory over Pennsylvania Saturday, Zuppke told a group of admirers that that and other victories came as a result of starving his men and administering to them large doses of caffeine or theine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE DEGENERATE TIMES | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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