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Word: londoners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match for European statesmen, muddled the whole matter (TIME, Sept. 14 and ante) by refusing to accept the League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation wages under the present arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Assembly | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Engaged. Monica Borglum, niece of Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and daughter of the late Sculptor Solon H. Borglum, to A. M. Davies of London, onetime officer in the Royal Air Force, son of Sir. A. T. Davies, permanent Secretary for Welsh Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 14, 1925 | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

Geniuses. Among England's legions of unemployed there are indubitably many potential geniuses. Everyone is a genius at something; at something else, an idiot.?Prof. C. Spearman, London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Itchen | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist of Jermyn St., London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Itchen | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...eyed Lifters. Myopia (shortsightedness) is caused by protruding the eyeballs when heavy lifting is attempted. Rest and instruction has restored 43% of the cases treated.?Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Itchen | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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