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Word: fashioned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history writing sometimes tends to emphasize the weakness of the great men of the world. It exposes the foibles to the contemptous gaze of the present in a reckless fashion which often fails to make allowances for the greater qualities. The true history of the present day seeks for a mean which presents both sides of the picture, that difficult blend of light and dark which composes the ideal color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WHOLE TRUTH | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

...unannounced, at the busy hour of midnight, he found Brother Arnaldo hard at work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with mock-heroic satisfaction: "It's just as black as ever-the color of a good Fascist shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Husband's Week | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...tangled places of the hemispheres trains of men with beasts of burden have forayed during the past winter, as often for sport and recreation as for science. Rich men have vied with institutions to explore, and have made the hardy trips themselves. To do so has become a new fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...more orthodox deserters have espoused a definitely antiRoyalist weekly La Vie Catholique and now hawk it in the old fashion, but style themselves by a new title, Les Pages du Pape, "The Pages of the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Papal Thunder | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heavenly Hubbub | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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