Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a game which children play at parties: twelve brats line up eleven chairs and march past them as minstrels play a tune; the object is to sit quickly. In the last few weeks many members of the International Missionary Council, in all corners of the world, picked up their satchels and started going to Jerusalem. Their object was to meet in this ancient town and begin a fortnight's discussion of the problems of enlarging Christianity...
...explorers served as experimental laboratory animals in the interests of science. Not a new diet for them, but under new circumstances they lived during these periods in the Bellevue Hospital subject to daily tests (TIME, March 12). Every afternoon they took a walk with a member of the hospital staff; more strenuous exercise was found in running two and a half miles in Central Park...
Early last year, and just before the passage of the McFadden Branch Banking Act which permitted national banks to operate branch offices (TIME, March 7, 1927), Mr. Giannini consolidated his Bank of Italy (101 branches) with the then newly formed Liberty Bank of America (175 branches). The result was the Bank of Italy National Trust & Savings Association with capital of $30,000,000, resources of $115,000,000. The business of its offices, now nearly 300, all in California, requires that one board of management sit constantly in San Francisco, and another in Los Angeles. James Augustus Bacigalupi is president...
TWELVE THOUSAND?Why a Prussian Prince did not sell an army to fight for England in the Revolution (TIME, March...
...BACHELOR FATHER?Fairy tale about the gruff old libertine and his three little bastards (TIME, March...