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...Empress's labor grew most severe last week just as Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito with the traditional weapons. Always before he had had to give the newborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sun's Son's Son | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess Nin-Gal. complete with shrines and food preparation chambers. Also discovered was a brick-lined well, sunk by King Ur-Engur (2300 B. C.) and conscientously repaired by later rulers, one of whom imbedded eight tablets in the masonry describing his work. Greece. Continuing their long delving into the Athenian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers' Year | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

Last week toothless little St. Gandhi writhed in embarrassment at news from New Delhi. A brand new automobile, ordered on approval, had gone roaring down the road 70 m.p.h., hit a bump, overturned. Out rolled Serpent Goddess Nilla, bruised, battered, but bitterly determined to lead her own life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: INDIA Runaway Disciple | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...early days as Premier: "Fascismo has already stepped, and, if need be, will quietly turn around to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Council for Chamber | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...Greensboro, N. C. Robinson R. Stabler, glowing with international goodwill, proposed that New York Harbor's Goddess of Liberty be equipped with loudspeaker and polylingual set of records, thunder appropriate greetings and farewells at passing ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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