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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after midnight. I had lingered long over TIME, and despite the interest of its contents was just falling into a doze, when an item passed beneath my eyes, and shattered my slumber Appropriately enough, it was an earthquake story which did it, appearing under the head SCIENCE in TIME, March 12. This item referred to a quake shock at "dreadfully hot Bakersfield," and seemed to imply that a series of mild shocks felt here about ten days ago was a fulfillment of a prophecy of Prof. Willis of Stanford for earthquake at Los Angeles...
...belief your excuse is puerile. My protest to the governor for the insult you made ... still remains until his excellency replies to me. ... In view of the seriousness and import because of my position as consul for Mexico the matter remains wholly to be settled between the head of the State and myself...
...world press partly discovered and partly created a new hero last week. His very stature is heroic-six feet six-and his broad shoulders support a massive head crowned impressively with snowy hair. As the representative of the British Empire, he strode into the Glass Room of the League of Nations, at Geneva, and delivered a speech which was soon compared to the great orations of Cicero...
...During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and terrifying is Western warfare...
...Sheldon was born in 1871. After receiving his education he took up receiving. He became head master of the Volkmann School of Boston. In 1917 this school and Noble and Greenough combined, keeping the latter's name. He has taught at Noble and Greenough's since then. He taught mathematics, general science, and chemistry...