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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Olympia shared with Admiral Dewey an hour of fame. In 1921 antique U. S, S. Olympia bore the body of the Unknown Soldier from France to Washington. Today obsolete U. S. S. Olympia rusts away in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Navy Department recently proposed to convert her into a few thousand dollars worth of scrap iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rust-Sploshed Hulk | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...north-west territory. In that diocese are at least half of the 14,000 Eskimos on the North American continent, care of whom the Catholic Church delegated to the Oblates in 1864. However not until 1911 did they commence their active missionary work. It took them six years to convert a single Eskimo. Then they got four families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polar Priest | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...convert chemical energy of fuel into mechanical energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...eternal glory of her family and the Manchu race, Ye-Ho-No-La became one of the 30 concubines attending the young Emperor of China. But the latter was a degenerate. His energy was spent in painting the town violet. Ye-Ho-No-La's problem was to convert the imperial energy to her own use, to induce the Emperor to condescend enough to let her bear him an heir. A son she bore and not only covered herself with glory but became as well the famed Dowager Empress of China (1835-1908). She commanded China's 500 millions, decapitated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...winning Tuesday's game before a New Haven Commencement crowd of 9000. Yale's baseball team clouted five Crimson hurlers for a total of 20 hits and 16 runs, while the Cambridge nine was able to convert 11 hits into only one tally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS AT NEW HAVEN 16-1 | 6/20/1929 | See Source »

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