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...life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success, the inadequate funds, irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Careerist Pepys | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...Confound the cats! All cats--alway--Cats of all colors, black, white, gray; By night a nuisance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Confound the cats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...doings of a Pavlov and others like him who prefer to work in supercilious obscurity are not calculated to stagger the Russian-in-the-street and confound the Capitalist world. In a nation of peasants which is so excited by the parachute that it is training millions to jump, men with spectacular ideas are popping up by thousands. The U. S. S. R. has a guild of inventors whose membership in the Moscow region alone is reported around 30,000. Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Red Wonders | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...Confound those peoples who desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No More War | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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