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...stretches across three hours and 30 minutes of the watcher's time. The play is simply not sufficiently invigorating to sustain the stubborn interest of the casual attendant. In the second place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 19, 1925 | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...There is but one way out of the situation, and that is to fight the audacious Moor until he is beaten and his morale broken. We must meet every attack of the Moors with counterattack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Africa | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Hangars will not disappear. They will simply be fewer. The usual procedure in commercial dirigible operation will be to moor at the mast, but to maintain hangars nevertheless as a species of "dry dock," where ships will come at rare intervals for thorough overhauls. Since mooring masts are comparatively cheap, the economy realized will greatly facilitate commercial operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Masts Are Best | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

Aerial Terminal. The New York Central Railroad is favorably considering the erection of a tower of latticed steel similar to the Eiffel tower, straddling Park Avenue, Manhattan, just north of the Grand Central Terminal, where giant dirigibles may moor and swing at anchor. Elevators would carry passengers from the air direct to waiting trains. Many architectural projects and applications for mooring privileges have been submitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Machine Age | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

...Spaniard cannot make headway against the Moor because of: 1) the long line of weak positions, mostly without intercommunication, stretching across a broken country 30 miles on a straight line from Afrau along the seacoast to Dardrius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Siege of Tifaruin | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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