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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governments built on foundations of tyranny and oppression have flourished, decayed and perished. The British Empire has shown that the lessons of the fate of empires have not been lost. We have loosened the formal bonds of unity with the great dominions. . . . When we meet together in equal freedom we are united by common allegiance to the Crown. In that model unity lies our strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Day | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...encourage the industries of the United States and for other purposes. By Representative Willis C. Hawley. This was the Tariff Bill, now officially before the House. But behind the debate was no conviction, no electrifying enthusiasm. The debaters well knew that their words beat empty air, that the real fate of this measure was being settled elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: More Compromise | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...strike-breaker), hated and despised by both his son and wife. When the scab's life was threatened the son was vindictive, exultant. But the wife's conscience, dependence and desire to humiliate the living man, conspired to prevent her from allowing the wretch to meet his fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Tournament | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Lynwood Sylvester Bryant '29, of East Northfield was the recipient of the first undergraduate Bowdoin prize of $250 in English for an essay entitled, "Fate in Hardy's Novels". Two second prizes of $100 each were awarded to Robert Gorham Davis '29, of Cambridge, and to Harold Freeze Folland '29, of Salt Lake City, Utah, for essays on: "Discors Concordia" The Imagination of John Donne", and "Theophilus Cibber: An Essay in Biography," respectively. Three other Seniors received Honorable Mention. These were Kermit Negley Murdock '29, of New York; Dana Morton Doten '29, of Cambridge; and Alfred H. Hirsch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARD OF NINE BOWDOIN PRIZES IS ANNOUNCED | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky's happiest moment came on March 16, 1881, when, in a St. Petersburg hospital, surrounded by strangers, Fate permitted him to die. For 46 years he had been beaten by life. His first love, and his last and real love had died. He had lost his devoted mother. He had a permanent quarrel with his brother. He had had financial collapse, humiliating work as a government clerk at small pay in the department of woods and forests-worst of all, lack of recognition for his music. Final blow: his life-child, the opera Boris Godonnov, tragic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Original Boris | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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