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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, however, Mr. Kellogg said something original-something more than Sir Austen had been willing to say. He said the U. S. would consider a diplomatic China to exist if the chief contending factions would agree on a joint delegation to represent China. This was a great advance, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Easy | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

No doubt beef-eaters consider that in writing The Giant of Old-borne Novelist Owen was doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

It is a generally acknowledged and rather serious fact that fewer and fewer of the right sort of men enter American politics every year; and the more evident this fact becomes the less inclined are college men to consider public life as a career or to take any personal interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RES PUBLICA | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

"It is seldom we are called upon to record such an act of cruelty and low-lived blood thirstiness as was enacted by a party of students last Sunday afternoon. About 15 of them repaired to a retired spot in a field near Porter's Station; they brought with them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Curled Darlings of the Nation" Caught in Act of Flagrant Cruelty--1877 "Chronicle" Deplores Loose Harvard Morals | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

I would go on to Part 2, question 7, on nineteenth century English authors and tell why Silas Marner never went to sea, and why his daughter Eppie really was not the salt of the earth, but I don't consider it worth while. I should also like to make...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE GRIME | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

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