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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest to learn this lesson of modern geography is exiled King Zog, whose kingdom of Albania was seized by the Italians last April. Having spent most of the time since his flight from Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Geography Lesson | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...more than a decade, is a graceful competitive pastime which was once regarded as about as unsalable as china painting. In championship competition, figure skaters are called on to do about seven out of about 41 compulsory school figures. Although many of these figures are inordinately difficult to learn, most are very dull to watch. The second half of a figure-skating contest is free skating, where invention counts as well as execution. Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie's, are limited by the fact that competitive figure skaters ordinarily perfect no more feats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...scholar who set out to count the number of times the word the occurred in Shakespeare would be chagrined to learn when he finished the job that someone else had had the same idea, counted faster. To spare scholars such disappointments, James M. Osborn, a young Yale research associate, this week undertook to tell them what their fellow scholars were doing. With an assistant (Robert G. Sawyer), he compiled a comprehensive list of studies being made by researchers in the humanities throughout the world. His list, Work in Progress (not to be confused with the famed working title of James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Work in Progress | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

AMERICANS READING TIME JUNE 19 WONDER IF TWA'S FACE ISN'T RED? TIME'S ARTICLE MUCH NEEDED SLAP AT AMERICAN JOURNALISM, WHICH PERHAPS WILL LEARN THAT HEROES ARE OFTEN HUMANS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...three. Balance like me. You're quite a fairy but you have your faults. While your left foot is lazy, your right foot is crazy, But don't be un'azy, I'll learn you to waltz. (Singing this icky classic, Mistress Shirley properly says "teach" instead of "learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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