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...enormous reptile. And the magical and shining air-the strange, subtle and enchanted weather, was above them, and the buried men were strewn through the earth on which they trod, and a bracelet of great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with its terrific towers, and was flung with a lion's port between its tides into the very maw of the infinite, all-taking ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Voice | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...this vast throng moves eastward- some walking, some riding in oxcarts, some speeding on motorcycles, some sitting back in fast limousines-various stories unfold. The banking Jews plot to make the new state which is to rise in the Gobi into a capitalist nation. The Communist Jews insist that all property be pooled. The Socialist Jews do not know what they want. And the liberal Jews are occasionally wounded in trying to keep the Socialists and the Communists from killing each other before they have even reached the new Promised Land. Mr. Nathan seems to be protesting that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nation Into Exile | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dr. Brooks's $1,000 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...minutes later he was back on the Houston, throwing his leis into the sea. Then the two cruisers streaked away eastward, Portland-bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rainbows for Happiness | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...confirmation he plotted Federal statistics of malformed children who died in first year, of imperfect men drafted for the War. The State of Washington showed the greatest proportion of dead malformed infants. Proceeding eastward the traced of these dead babies "can be traced beginning in Colorado, passing through Kansas, spreading to include the Great Lakes region and ending in New England, where Vermont presents the highest rate. When we proceed north beyond the regions of cyclones and to a maritime type of climate, Newfoundland for instance, the rate drops." Southern States where the climate is equable, have a negligible number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Conception & Cyclones | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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