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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newest thing in combat tanks. Powered by a 12-cylinder Liberty motor, it rushed 62 m. p. h. down a road on eight hard-rubber tires. In 14 minutes it was converted into a caterpillar tractor, ready to hurtle its ten tons, its three-man crew, its full armament, cross-country nearly four times as fast as any tank similarly armored had moved before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Weapon-Making | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Full of work and full of play?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Among the delegates moved a man whose face is full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Council of Copenhagen | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Present head of Macy's is Jesse Isidor Straus, who always wishes to have his middle name written in full out of respect to the memory of his father. Purchasing Bamberger's was a logical step because, situated on the west side of Manhattan, many a Macy customer is a New Jerseyite and the two great stores were competing ever more keenly. Friends of Mr. Straus twittingly asked whether he bought Bamberger's with the discount at which Macy's aims to sell all merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bamberger to Macy | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...fate of all open-air statues to have to submit to certain indecencies. But Christian Student has received more than his full share. Standing opposite Murray Dodge Hall, campus religious headquarters, he is passed daily by almost each & every student. At night, when pagan students are emboldened by potations from Bill & Jim's or other anti-prohibition stations, they frequently commune with the Christian Student. Many a sun has risen to find him hugging an empty bottle, or with indecent additions to his costume, outlandish colors on his anatomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fallen Christian | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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