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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tsar Peter, perhaps to spare his son, the Tsarevitch Alexius, such pangs of doubt, had the boy murdered. He also decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, and delivered an anatomical lecture on her head. Withal, savage Peter was called "The Great." Last week on the white sands at Biarritz it remained incumbent upon Spain's fashionably tanned Alfonso XIII to state clearly which of Peter I's gargantuan examples he would like to follow "if it could be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Alfonso the Great? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Pugnacious Man. His feet are apart, form a strong base. His knees are bent and strong, his wrist turned out, his hand in. His head is forward, his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Character Postures | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Timid Man. His feet, knees, elbows and wrists are turned in. While his hand is turned out, his thumb is covered by his fingers. Often timidity is betrayed by a curled little finger. His chest is low, his head on an angle, his chin raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Character Postures | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Normal Man. Different are the types of various races. The U. S. Normal Man stands with his feet fairly well apart, his weight forward, more aggressive than philosophical. His hands are well controlled, his arms relaxed, his head straight, his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Character Postures | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...what happened on the vacation of Philip Eaton, chemistry instructor at St. Marks, smart Massachusetts boys' preparatory school. Teacher Eaton had installed himself in a flat in Halfmoon Street, Mayfair, London. There he was found one morning by his housemaid, sprawled in a pool of blood. About his head, face and hands were razor cuts, ghastly after twelve hours of bleeding. On his body were heavy bruises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher on Vacation | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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