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...Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely harsh and colorful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Business in the Bystreets-- | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

With hour examinations rampant, and numberless theses in the offing the pressure for books will be great. It is high time for someone to inaugurate a college-wide "Steal-Less-Books-from-Widener-Week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIGHT-FINGERED GENTRY | 3/26/1930 | See Source »

...land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used it for their battle ground. They resented the foreigner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Novels For Early Spring Reading | 3/25/1930 | See Source »

From the Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc., sounds no lamentation, no wailing over hard times. All is hopeful, active. It is one of the most practical of the numberless Jewish philanthropies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jewish Farmers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...twelve as a first former he is always conscious of Mrs. Thayer's care and thoughtfulness. For 36 years on an average of five nights a week she has given her time and charm to entertaining the boys of the various six forms, and to numberless returning graduates, their wives and children she invariably offers the warm welcome of a home. To St. Mark's graduates Dr. and Mrs. Thayer are synonymous names with that of St. Mark's and St. Mark's School is never mentioned without likewise mentioning Dr. and Mrs. Thayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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