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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Sinn Fein Rebellion of 1916, Mr. de Valera had taught Mathematics, Latin, French at various Roman Catholic colleges in Dublin. Since that time, he has suffered various terms of imprisonment, including a life sentence. But such is fate that he is now free, the leader of the second largest party in the Free State-the Republican-and a national figure whose constitutional theories do not fit in with those of the majority of his countrymen or with the sentiments of the people of Britain. More than that, he is still Chancellor of the National University of Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Professor | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

Friedmann, who seems not to have been connected with the plot, but who certainly knew of it and made no attempt to warn the authorities, alone met his fate with resolution. To the last, he declared his innocence, stated that he was being hanged because he was a Communist conspirator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Executions | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer: "Nobody in Norway is anxious regarding the fate of Amundsen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Guessing | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

...rare occurrences of golf history. Although there have been champions who have led the field year in and year out consistently these occasiions have been the exceptions that prove the rule that golf titles are no things to be mathematically reckoned, but rather crowns presided over by chance and fate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JONES GETS 291, TIES McFARLANE FOR TITLE | 6/5/1925 | See Source »

Hardihood* "Realism Has Crossed the Potomac," by Ferry The Story. "Broom sedge," old Matthew Fairlamb used to say, "ain't jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hardihood* | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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