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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight in Africa mercurial youths whom it was becoming difficult to control at home. And if the adventure had gone badly the Italian Army could have borne with equanimity the disgrace of Old de Bono...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Answer to Sanctions | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

This unusually long season grows increasingly difficult from the Brown meet on, and stiff competition can be expected from the Alumni and the Providence Boys' Club in the preliminary meets. Such former Crimson luminaires as Roy Wallace '35, George Scott '34, and Robert Fallon '33, in the freestyle events; Edward Stowell '34 in the backstroke; and Victor Leventritt '34 in the breastwork should provide an exacting test for the varsity; and in Matthew Chrostowski and John Higgins, National record holders in the sprints and breastwork respectively, the Boys' Club can vaunt itself of two prominent candidates for next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

...difficult to determine the age of the books, since printing of this kind began in 1200, but 1750 may safely be assumed the latest possible date, since there was a change in the canon made at that time, attributed to a Chinese Emperor, which these volumes do not contain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yenching Institute Gets Sacred Books from Thibet | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

...tree (TIME, Sept. 9). The Queen is buried in Belgium but around the tiny plot of Swiss soil Leopold III ordered built a low wall with a cross erected inside. Indignantly the agent who effected purchase of this piteous plot said that its Swiss owners had "made things very difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Piteous Plot | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...General Kondylis that he, pro-Italian, Dictator and Kingmaker, had made the worst possible choice of King for his purposes. Of mixed Danish-German-Russian royal blood, George II may not be brainy but he has a great deal of what it takes to be King. For the difficult maneuvering ahead he can count on much quiet British help and the Greeks are used to being over-awed by the warships of George V, the "Sailor King." To George II furious Greek Republicans issued a manifesto addressed to "George Glucksburg" and stating "you are only the leader and tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: By the Grace of God | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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