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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroine Rachel was a foundling with flame-colored hair, her origin dim. All she knew was that she had been rescued as a little girl by old Baruch. a sniveling Jewish antique-dealer, and brought to the Rumanian town where he set up his curiosity shop. Hidden away in a house behind the shop, her existence unsuspected by the townsfolk, Rachel grew to womanhood...
...know of an organization whose purpose it is to discourage the use of a distinguished Christian name to designate an endroit which invites not even the slightest thought of anything distinguished; I have reference to "The Society for the Prevention of Calling Lavatories John." The Society is of Detroit origin and confine, but it may be that mention of its existence in TIME will prompt the organization of companion chapters in other centers-perhaps even a national unit...
Although it was not confirmed officially, it was felt that the real reason for the discontinuance of the sport had its origin in the trouble with Yale this year which resulted in the dropping of the Elis from the present schedule...
...reshuffling of its representatives who seemed likely to be unduly affected by attachments in the lands of their assignments Italy, France, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Portugal and Turkey have similar regulations against diplomatic marriages to aliens. But most informed observers traced the U. S. order's origin to the inconvenience to which Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was put during his Ambassadorial stay in Moscow...
...Whipple's theory, which was contained in a paper read by him held that the origin of cosmic static lies in the extreme low temperature radiation in the center of the Milky...