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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There was much waste of human life during the War, enormous loss of lives which should not have taken place. But it is doubtful whether, in any case, there was a more deliberate and useless waste of human life than in the so-called capture of Mons. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Libel? | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

The target of Lawyer Gabaldon's attack, which historians called the most bellicose formal pronouncement ever made by a Filipino Commissioner in the 30 years the U. S. has governed the Territory, was "Powerful forces that you do not see . . . enormous sums of American capital."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Gabaldon's Going | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

One day the late Carl Akeley, sculptor, taxidermist, proved to the Johnsons that lions that have never been hunted by man will not attack him. He showed them a valley inhabited by a dozen or more such lions, enormous cats, playing and sleeping. THEY WENT IN AMONG THE LIONS, spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Animals | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

The letter, in part: ". . . Dear Mr. Shaw, life is a great and serious affair. . . . You are not sufficiently serious. . . . The questions you deal with are of such enormous importance that . . . to make them the subject of satires may easily do harm."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tolstoy to Shaw | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Having delivered himself of opinions upon the Bible ("a bloody book"), upon the many cases of substitution to be found in the streets of St. Louis ("I can show you a thousand"), and upon an enormous number of other topics*, famed evangelist and onetime baseball player Billy Sunday last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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