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...began to taunt newsmen with hints of impending "big doings." A Rumanian Army mission mysteriously turned up in Berlin, and reports came out that Adolf Hitler had offered to lend his "good offices" in persuading Russia and Hungary to be nice-not to invade King Carol Il's domain. For these good offices, the Führer "hoped" that Rumania would: 1) demobilize half her Army; 2) give the Nazis a monopoly on oil and grain exports; 3) admit a pro-Nazi Iron Guard into the Rumanian Cabinet to "safeguard German interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Brenner Pass Parley | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...ghost explained in his message that he is an old Revolutionary soldier who is tired of living in the attic. He demanded to have the entire house for his domain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GHOST OF HOLLIS WARNS THAT DORMITORY MUST BE EMPTIED | 2/20/1940 | See Source »

...loosing fierce falcons from Britain's headlands, is as jealously proud of his command as he is adamant in his demands upon it. His men have flown more than five million miles since war began. They call him "The Vicar of Western Europe" and he calls his domain "My Parish." It extends from 1,000 miles west in the Atlantic to Helgoland Bight and Sylt and from Gibraltar to Arctic ice. So exacting is he about evidence from his pilots for their exploits that one of them lately whined: "Pretty soon Ginger'll want us to reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: To Keep Afloat | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...just as the July of 1914 never came again. Whether Europe's new era will end in nationalist chaos, good or bad internationalism, or what not, the era will be new-and the end of the old era will have been finally precipitated by a man whose domain lies mostly outside Europe. This Joseph Stalin did by dramatically switching the power balance of Europe one August night. It made Joseph Stalin man of 1939. History may not like him but history cannot forget him. As for his contemporaries on the 1939 scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Like Gaul, the domain of Harvard is divided into three parts. In the center is the Yard, birthplace of Harvard, which now contains Freshman dormitories and College classrooms. To the north, across Cambridge Street, stretches the empire of the graduate schools and laboratories. On the south side of Massachusetts Avenue are the lairs of upperclassmen, reaching down to the Charles River, across which stand the Business School and Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOGRAPHY OF HARVARD PUZZLES TYROS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

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