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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the context of both articles it is apparent that both are intended to cover one and the same quotation. I am curious to know whether Mr. Chu said "anti-British" or "anti-foreign." Under the circumstances of the entire affair, TIME'S quotation would seem more logical. Mr. Chu has more or less anti-European prejudice but has never indicated any such prejudice against America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Model Dollar | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Next morning Dresser told the world through the Chicago Tribune, omitting the context of the interview. See Melville Stone's Fifty Years a Journalist for confirmation of this account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

There are a lot of good courses which are just no good at all for an eccentric vagabond because they themselves are long wanderings through deserts of text. There comes an oasis, though, in every desert, a context in every text, witness Italian 2. Ariosto is about to be encountered by Professor Weston and this morning's lecture in Sever 5 will deal with him as an epic writer and not as an introduction to the Italian language. And besides, Sever 5 is on the first floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

...From implied statements elsewhere in the context, it appears that she wanted Edward VII known as "Albert-Edward I," in memory of the Prince Consort, and preferred that the present King (George Frederick Ernest Albert) should be known as "Frederick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Victoriana | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...comments or remarks attributed to me in that speech were taken from the context of the talk. The 'corpse factory' story was referred to. This story was never used for the simple reason that it was not truthful, and any reports that any pictures were used is entirely fictitious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candid Charteris | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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