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He was born at Plaisians, Drome, France, where he spent his boyhood until he was ten. Then he traveled in Europe and Africa with his parents, studied at Turin, Italy, entered his novitiate at Monaco, France, where he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1878 he entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Padre of the Rains | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

At a quarter of one, an explosion, probably in the basement of the building catapulted a veritable geyser of flame and black smoke high into the heavens, spraying with a shower of glowing embers the spectators and Business School buildings, which were to the leeward of the raging inferno. Bright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flame-Swept Athletic Center Will Be Replaced By Modern Plant From Recent Dillon Gift | 1/15/1930 | See Source »

The first corpse Lieut. Graves saw in France was the body of a soldier suicide. Says he: there was a good deal of shooting in the War that never got into the newspapers. Two young miners hated their sergeant and decided to kill him. Later they reported to the adjutant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

Rampant upon the tariff battlefield still strode the Senatorial armies (TIME, Sept. 30 et ante). But from the heavens on the Republican side came a portentous rumbling. Battle between the lines ceased as the Republican chieftains harkened to awful words from the White House, even as the chieftains at Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Camp Trouble | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

After Carry's second marriage, to Lawyer-Minister David Nation of Warrensburg, Kan., the daughter went insane and Carry Nation herself became very peculiar. Every night at bed-time Mrs. Nation told her troubles to God, dragging herself around the room on her knees. At times she felt herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Christ's Bulldog | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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