Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all Chinese "palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately...
Old Wilhelm, proud head of the House of Hohenzollern, called his five sons home last week. Up the curving carriage drive of the staid villa at Doom in Holland most of them came-ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Eitel Friedrich and August Wilhelm ("Auwi"). Old Wilhelm talked plainly. He had...
In the warm, exciting routine of swimming and horse-racing, parties and roulette which constitute social life on the east coast of Florida, outboard motorboat racing this winter assumed an international air. After the first series of races at New Smyrna (TIME, March 12), there began a round of entertaining...
Into Partick Congregational Church in Glasgow one day last week crowded hundreds of devout Scots, with hundreds more pressing on their heels outside. In the pulpit stood Rev. Vera Kenmure, Scotland's first female minister. She was resigning her post, preaching her farewell sermon. While women in the congregation...
The Author. One fact about Charles Kay Ogden would be enough to frighten most plain readers. With Ivor Armstrong Richards, another Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working...