Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Modest Emperor. The deposed heir to the vanished Manchu Empire of China, a modest youth, Henry P'u-Yi (TIME, March 16, 1925) was interviewed last week for the first time in many months, at his refuge-residence in the Japanese quarter of Tientsin. Said...
...sinecure to be emperor today. A good emperor must be a representative of and father of his people, and I am not good enough morally or mentally to be father to the people of China. I am sure the time will come when there will again be an emperor in united China, but it must be somebody greater than...
...Caesar thrice offered emperor's wreath, no Macbeth thrice foredoomed to kingship ever proved so obdurate against election as has Dr. Horace Percy Silver, thrice designated bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church and thrice scornful of the honor. Dr. Silver is rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan. He is not to be confused with Jesse Forrest Silver, Free Methodist clergyman of Los Angeles, or with Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland rabbi...
Famed British Miner-Communist leader A. J. ("Emperor") Cook (TIME, May 10, 1926) promptly assembled "a mass meeting of protest," declared: "The Government's refusal to grant these passports to harmless, innocent children proves that it is preparing for war against Soviet Russia...
Methods of subdividing the year (calendars) have been changed repeatedly. Julius Caesar found the Egyptians using twelve 30-day months. The five extra days (six in leap years) they celebrated as holidays. Julius Caesar gave six odd months 31 days and February only 29 (30 in leap year). Emperor Augustus Caesar, jealous of his Uncle Julius' month July, gave to August 31 days also, and shifted other months to the present reckoning. In 1582 Pope Gregory corrected the calendar, which had lagged ten days behind astronomical time because the actual year contains 365.242 days, while the calendar year accounts...