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...Manger feats last week in the amateur weight-lifting championships of the U. S. The reason for that was the bouts were held in Manhattan's German-American Athletic Club, an out-of-the-way little place on an island full of less static entertainment than grunting men lifting lifeless burdens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong-Men | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...great life force. This he chooses to worship. But then, again, he finds that he is bowing before something that is unexplained. He sacrifices his earthly love to it but is unappeased. In the end he gives himself to this new deity, the dynamo, only to be thrown back lifeless, so far as this world is concerned. Or has he just begun to live? O'Neill begs the question with his final curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Alas! His enemies succeeded. But now the fraud is apparent to the whole world. Easter is coming. But only in deepest sadness can we think of our German people, who are externally enslaved and indebted and internally at the same time enslaved and lifeless and?this is the sad dest part?want to be slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Kaiserlich Geburtstag | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...heard the statement "I never knew what study was until I came here". Obviously one cannot like study if he doesn't know what it really is; and an acquaintance with the vitality of knowledge is not possible to those whose pursuit of it has been but a lifeless travesty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MYOPIA HUNTS KNOWLEDGE | 10/30/1928 | See Source »

...other U. S. citizen was known to have been killed in China, last week, but out of the Whangpoo River, eight miles below Shanghai, there was fished the lifeless body of U. S. Vice Consul Walter B. Wilson Jr., who had mysteriously disappeared a week previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bullet | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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