Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: "The first man-child ever born a king," as TIME puts it, probably was not Alphonso XIII, but one of the old Persian or Parthian kings, whose name I am unable to remember, although you, doubtless, can find it. The monarch referred to may have been Chosroes, but, whoever he was, he was born some time after the death of his father, whose demise made imperative the selection of a new king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above...
...find anything in the article that suggests that an amendment, once proposed, is to be open to ratification for all time. ... Of the power of Congress, keeping within reasonable limits, to fix a definite period for the ratification we entertain no doubt...
...deals with elemental emotions, this play, with a simplicity that is devastating. It is as fine a series of psychological studies as one will find outside a casebook. And it has the added benefit of perfect interpretation. Its British cast leaves nothing to be asked. Particularly effective are Jack Hawkins, Leon Quartermaine, Colin Keith-Johnson, Derek Williams and Victor Stanlev...
...Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute was deeply troubled. Gen. William Horner Cocke (Virginia National Guard) had resigned as V.M.I. superintendent. Soldier-Educators were hard to find. Last week a committee of the Board of Visitors called upon Maj. Gen. John Archer Lejeune, lately relieved as Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps (TIME, Feb. 18) and asked if he would accept the superintendency if it were officially tendered. He indicated he would...
...William Francis Carey, new head of the oldtime Garden, newcomers will find no sleeping adversary. He is 50, a bronzed six-footer. He was born a farmer's son near Hoosick Falls, N. Y., earned $11 with his own cabbage patch while still very young and struck out for the West with that $11 as his capital. He learned rail road construction in the Colorado camps...