Word: marse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels...
No longer can the assurance of the old refrain, "All's quiet along the Potomac", ring throughout the bustling cities and peaceful hamlets of the land. For an open insurrection mars the tranquillity of the nation's capital in a manner not connected with the usual Congressional disturbances. Probably most...
Of meteors and related effluvia has the earth been compounded. A billion or more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out...
1905. The Yankee Circus on Mars was in town. Cobs in endless procession clopped up Sixth Avenue. Black coachmen and white, in cockaded silk hats, with thorny whips at jaunty angles, fluttered the leathern ribbons that guided the cobs that drew glistening Brewster cut-unders to the theatre. Out stepped...
Appointments and commissions filled William Howard Taft's years-the Philippine Commission, first Governor of the Philippines, a conference with Pope Leo XIII. President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904-an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico. Wherever...