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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As the court recessed, Mayfair recalled that Toffi is technically no princess. Morganatic and never recognized by the ancient Hungarian House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was her marriage to one of its scions, from whom she has been divorced for years. In London she was accepted socially by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mystery Woman | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

During World War I, club life in Batavia and Surabaya was trying. Since The Netherlands Indies were neutral, both Britons and Germans were allowed to retain club membership. Arguments and fist fights occurred. Finally the diplomatic Dutch rebuilt their bars with three separated bays-Germans to the right, Britons to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Dutch Tweak | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Lungfish are evolutionary survivors of the Devonian period (300-400 million years ago) when many forward-looking fish were experimenting with lungs. The lungfish are related to those intrepid pioneers which crawled up on land to become ancestors of reptiles, mammals and birds; also to the Coelacanths, which had fins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Champion Laggard | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

More serious than this subjective terror are dislocations of the jaw, tiny compression fractures of the spine, which occurred to metrazol patients in over 40% of one series of cases. During their violent convulsions, patients arch their backs with such force that sometimes they literally crush their vertebrae.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Death for Sanity | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Because Irish, French and English military teams, old favorites with the fans, had a previous engagement this year (thus narrowing the international field to Mexican, Chilean, U. S. cavalrymen), the twelve principal civilian events for hunters and jumpers* received more than customary attention during the eight days of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Women | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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