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...whether the charges are true .or false, but whether any League member state will attempt to secure denunciation of the Treaty of Tirana when it is deposited with the League of Nations. If that point is raised, and if Great Britain stands behind Italy in quashing denunciation, the drift of events will be sufficiently clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blatant Accusations | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much as 15 miles a day. Yangtze rivermen frequently express the opinion that if she ever lost her mudhooks in her present state she would drift right down to Shanghai, unless her crew were able to get a line ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Experimenters in Belgium, Germany and California had failed to corroborate the ether drift findings of Dr. Miller of Cleveland, thus tending to substantiate the Einstein theory of time-space relativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A.A.A.S. | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Over the waste stretches of the march lands journey the Ten Thousand Men of Harvard with their goal a white line across a green field far away guarded the rumor goes by an indigo Cerebus. This afternoon before the sun drift into the concrete of the Bowl and sufficient thrills have entered sufficient college hearts the yearly puzzle will unravel: does or does not John Harvard win his big games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEAU GESTE | 11/20/1926 | See Source »

Early Friday afternoon the little Pralebeys begin to drift into town, and Bill Altenre whose you used to know at St. Sergius, brings one of his club mates in for the week-end. They are happy all over the place, and the fur coat which they leave by accident hardly suffices to pay for the damage they did to your liquor and your room...

Author: By K. D. X., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

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