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During the languid summer months there was a lull in their interchange, which was taken by the press to mean that Mexico City had persuaded Washington that the laws were not so very retroactive and confiscatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Vexful Waiting | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...their literary talents in writing news stories and interviews for the CRIMSON. This year it has been decided to hold two News competitions for first-year men to cut down on the duration of the candidate period, and to take advantage of the quiet seven weeks which comprises the lull between the Yale game and Midyear storms for the first of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OFFERS '30 FIRST CHANCE | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Cradle Snatchers-What raucous middle-aged women say and do to lull the scruples of undergraduate boy friends. Popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: List | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

There had come a lull. Creatures crept from wreckage. They pawed dazedly over tangled debris, stumbled on dead monster fishes, sought kin-bodies. Down in the harbor the waves scarcely abated- wrenched, tore, harried, sank ships. Over in rich idle Hollywood, one lone building, the Masonic Temple, stood drunkenly. As if enraged by such impertinence, the hurricane struck again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hurricane | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Moroccan nobles uttered passionate but unavailing prayers, last week, as a typhus epidemic spreading from the Arab slums of Fez entered at last the cool and sumptuous palace of the Sultan Mulai Yusef, where such luxuries as fountains, tinkling behind screens of marble fretwork, lull the inhabitants into a disregard of occasional vermin potentially laden with typhus bacilli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Typhus Epidemic | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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