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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "or I'll undress," and with feverish speed she began to do so. As the crisis reached its height, a detective assumed his deepest voice: "Listen, lady, we'll wrap you in a blanket and carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Nicholas | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...First was the period of youthful idealism during which his eloquence, magnetism and persuasive influence over men were at their height. He had then a very attractive personality and his followers were devoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Gabrielle (Mrs. John De Fuller), "The World's Only Half- Woman," famed circus horror, sideshow spectacle, born without legs, height 2 ft. 8 in., weight 128 lb., disappeared from her home. Her husband, "a strapping six-footer," was positive she had not been kidnapped, did not think she had eloped, was baffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...would further aid his navigators by having them drop, as they fly, minims of potassium permanganete upon the ice-floes. The purple stains moisture would make of these droppings would be readily visible trailblazers from quite a height, providing no snow fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...side the mountains rise, on the other runs a stone cliff 400 ft. high and 2,000 ft. long. This cliff terminates abruptly as the stream debouches abruptly upon a plain, and at the cliff, a giant shivver of it, detached from the main mass, rises the full height of the precipice, like a giant terminal column. It is called Chimney Rock and is one of the scenic spots of North Carolina. Beautiful views of the cliff and rock can be obtained from the modern road across the little valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Another Cliff to Carve | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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