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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defeated by 30 to 17 votes, was to exempt beer from the scope of the bill. A second amendment to limit conviction to those people who "knowingly" sold drink to youngsters was carried. During debate Mr. J. H. Thomas (Labor), acting as Chairman of Committee, demurred against the constant interruptions and pointed out the retarding effect they had on the progress of the bill. Lieutenant-Colonel Archer-Shee (Conservative) thereupon offered advice in an adapted couplet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Apr. 7, 1923 | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

Those, who have used the Child Memorial Library during the past few years have found the assistance and attention of the venerable librarian, Mr. Thacher, a constant aid and help. His knowledge and love of the books in the collection was equalled-only by his readiness to give any aid within his power. None who met him could fail to be impressed by the dignified kindliness of this gentleman of the Old School. To his friends and relatives the CRIMSON only speaks the feeling of the entire University in extending its deepest sympathy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCIS STORER THACHER | 3/28/1923 | See Source »

Nevertheless the constant criticism of foreigners is apt to rankle. It will call to mind the fact that Whistler was American by birth, but British by education and sympathies. It will make him painfully conscious of the faddism which "American artists", as such, have indulged in. And the recent exhibit of the "Society of American Artists" in New York will not comfort him. Its two stellar attractions would hold, in foreign eyes, the place of scorn that Mr. Studge, the Medium, held in Browning's. In one of these "masterpieces", Bryan, Anderson, and Volstead are seen protesting against the miracle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOO MUCH WITH US | 3/21/1923 | See Source »

Lloyd Georgian newspaper displaying a pronounced bias are not popular with the press, but the Allegemeine has accepted all of them. The Eve ning Standard published in although a constant supporter Lloyd George in Coalition days, refused to print his articles on the ground of impolicy. The only Lon don newspaper which continues print his writings is the Daily Chronicle, which was purchased from Lloyds by his political friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lloyd George | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...coming together by mutual gravitation. If, then, meteors fell into the moon while the crust was cooling, they would penetrate the surface, throwing up circular ridges, and the holes thus caused would probably be filled nearly level by molten matter from the interior. As the ball grew by these constant accretions, the corresponding expansion of the surface would both enlarge the diameter of the original craters and in some cases break them up, causing the irregular arcs and mountain chains, just as the designs on a child's balloon change shape when it is inflated. The theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glimpses of the Moon | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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