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...cent of the students polled expressed a preference for the Donkey as compared with 39 percent for the G. O. P. The remaining 14 per cent were divided between those who did not know and those who favored some third party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Students Support Democrats, Roosevelt, in Recent National Survey | 4/26/1940 | See Source »

...peace waned, Q. E. grew-got her two funnels, pumps, donkey engines. She came along fast. Cunard set her first voyage to the U. S. for April or May 1940. Then war broke. Q. E. sat useless, an unfinished liability, meat for either sabotage or bombing. Last month fire broke out in her library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Q. E. Deed | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Florentine Revival | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Hoover's one specific proposal was that Europe's War debts to the U. S. be used for exchanging international scholarships. *Republican elephant like the Democratic donkey first appeared in cartoons by famed Thomas Nast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elephant Boy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Queen Unique | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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