Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meant by " a section"? Do not give us a weekly page on fashions. If you do, I stop my subscription. But fashions are part of history. And TIME reports history in the making, does it not ? During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable...
...possible that the hue and cry of the last two years which has placed football in the position of the evil genius of American colleges will make way for a finer appreciation of the game itself. Perhaps now sport for its own sake will be more than a phrase. If such is the case, if the game resumes its proper status--a national pastime and nothing more than a pastime--the battle will not have been in vain...
When one has once accepted this extremely politic stand the remainder of his ruminations follow in a much more logical and scientific manner. The root of this presumed evil lies, obviously, in too inclusive entrance methods; therefore Mr. Angell advances various aids to the enforcement of a selective process. Most of those listed by him have been tried with a greater or less degree of success. One thing is certain--Mr. Angell endorses such a pruning of registration lists but while doing so he also realizes that there can be no wholesale method. Each institution must adjust its own mechanics...
Twang! Twang! Twang! An unearthly noise resounded through the Japanese Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Two aged courtiers twanged a bowstring by bending a bow almost double and letting it go suddenly? they were frightening evil spirits away...
...days to the dread hamlet. There he received a great welcome. Never, in the en tire history of the colony, had a sovereign been so bold. Advancing through the street, the King was suddenly confronted by a leper, who ran out from a nearby building. Leering, his evil, malicious-looking face contorted in an ugly menace, he held out an infected hand for the King to grasp. Alfonso, blanching, hesitated, re coiled, then stepped forward and shook him warmly by the hand. For days after, it is recorded, he soaked his hand in strong disinfectant. ? Spain gave notice...