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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Off Season | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

When St. Peter introduced Moses and Noah to the late arrival "who made the world safe for democracy," Wilson said: "When I look down upon the world I see hosts of Hooverites and Critics everywhere vigorously voicing their loss of faith in democracy and the democratic party in particular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...look what they are doing to my fourteen points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators began to grumble, to wonder whether he might prove to be other than the meek & mild presiding officer that he was expected to be. He had promised not to criticize the rules of the Senate but he made it look as though he intended to enforce them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shortest Session | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Sportsman Pilot, a monthly magazine devoted to the activities of amateur flyers, took the air last week. On shiny paper cut slightly larger than this page, Editor Darwin J. Adams and Managing Editor Franklin Pinkham printed articles and pictures calculated to make as-yet-wingless readers look skyward. Publicist Fitzhugh Green tried to explain why Commander Byrd is in the Antarctic. Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, discoursed on woman's status in aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: For Amateurs | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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