Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trevelyan and to have swept the reader back to the riddled summit of the Janiculum. Standing there with the calm courage of a god, miraculously proof to the bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps were guided by the inevitable fate which raised him above the common run of fears and hesitations hampering the course of ordinary men. The illusion was so real that the Vagabond's twentieth century body stirred unconsciously while his imagination hurled itself against the French, spurred by the example of Italy's Man of Destiny...
Borden's grimness lay largely in its precision. It pictured a healthy, happy young man of perhaps 25 years. The stark head line read : 40 YEARS TO GO. Then, to cheer a mortal race to its inevitable fate, Borden's said: "Regular intestinal habits will help him make...
...fortunate enough to be a subscriber to TIME; I would that I were. However, while in an oculist's office Fate put your magazine into my hands again, of May 4, 1931, this time: Mrs. M. V. Roquelaine of Baltimore, Md. commented upon the unusual cruelty of the person or persons who strung up that dog. Your answer to her query as to whether the perpetrator was not to be brought to punishment was: "If and when Cincinnati's fiend ... is apprehended and punished, TIME will tell...
...speech which most Democrats studied for platform pointers, Mr. Baruch gave Governor Ritchie his first important push toward the White House. Declared this wise old Democratic counselor: "We have in our midst the perpetual* Governor of Maryland to whom the finger of Fate seems to point as being perhaps destined to move to a neighboring District...
More than that, the rumblings of rebellion against the sanctity of the game are being heard here and there throughout the country with perhaps increasing strength. Princeton alumni are dismayed by the sad record of this year's team, but the undergraduates display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies...