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...weekly sin appears to be wholly illogical, but after a lengthy microscopic examination, there becomes faintly apparent the only possible loop-hole to plausibility. The authors of this legislative marvel may perhaps have the ancient Hebraic conception of a personal deity with all the very human characteristics of the Olympian gods, who, after the activities of Saturday night, is scarcely interested in what happens on Sunday before noon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHINELESS SUNDAY | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Once again across the Tariff battlefield in the Senate rumbled the awful Voice from the White House. Weary Senate warriors paused in the confusion of conflict to give ear. In an Olympian third person, the Voice declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...deafening clamor. Again stacking their arms. Senate warriors fell to loud and disputatious shouting as to the responsibilities for tariff delays. Two weeks had been spent on the first of 15 separate rate schedules in the bill. All were agreed upon the impossibility of complying with the Olympian command that the measure be disposed of in the same length of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...northern transcontinentals apply an extra fare for travel on their limited trains. Most famed of these, all making the Chicago-Seattle run in 63 hours, are the Great Northern's Empire Builder, the Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's Olympian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Extra Fares | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...accepting, not supercilious but nearly reverential. Enviable is the position of the President of the Harvard Law Review; he may practically choose what potent law firm he will serve after graduation. Similarly Presidents of law reviews and journals at other law schools achieve in varying degrees the quasi-Olympian privilege of being able to choose, instead of having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Success | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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