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"Dear friend," wrote Saint to Viceroy, "I know the dangers attendant upon the method adopted by me, but my country is not likely to mistake my meaning. I say what I mean and think. The only way to conquer violence is through non violence, pure and undefiled. "If, in spite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Lady After Saint | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

High over San Francisco's Golden Gate during last week's western war games, Flyer-Artist Clayton Knight sketched the position of two "enemy submarines" driving toward the metropolis. He handed the chart to Lieut. Haydn P. Roberts, radio engineer, who inserted it in a cylindrical machine. Forty seven seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Rentschler Triumphant | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

Recognizing that humans find the sounds of animals exciting, mysterious, pleasant, Raymond Ditmars suggested that "the terrific crash and turmoil of life inside an anthill" must be comparable to that of a human metropolis. In the Berkshires he found anthills three feet high in each of which some 40,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Air Zoo | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

In leisurely fashion will he journey on his donkey over the path once hoofed by the famous metal-worker, Paul Revere, pointing out on the way the common of Lexington and the minute man (not a railroad train) there standing guard. Wandering on to Concord--what an appropriate name that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/18/1930 | See Source »

Comparable to a scene from Metropolis was the sight that greeted a CRIMSON reporter as he stepped into the main room of the Elevated Power Plant on Boylston Street, now in the process of being torn down. Through the hazy air, filled with the fumes of acetylene torches and the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dismantling Power House in Preparation for New House is Problem of Weight--Tons Hurtle Through Concrete Base | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

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