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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern skeptics, of course, paid no attention. But the great historian, Plutarch, would not have failed to record it as an event possibly of grave significance to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Omen? | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...from one room to another, and sits by an open window for hours, watching the horses exercise on Bognor sands. But he does not seem able to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes. It was said that this is the reason the Prince of Wales has paid only one visit to Craigwell House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...great and furious war god after whom their land is named, Mexicans again paid costly homage last week?by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own?the fiery blue heaven, where the din of ghastly battle never ceases?this old pagan deity may well have looked down, last week, upon his people and exulted, "How little they have changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...hitches. Things can never run too smoothly to suit the precise mind of the six-foot-five-inch ruler, and yet recently a number of annoying little accidents have happened to His Majesty. A fat Frenchman fell over his feet in the theatre at Cannes (TIME, Feb. 25). He paid a State Visit to Madrid, only to have the Queen-Mother of Spain die suddenly (TIME, Feb. 18). So it has gone. Last week King Christian returned to Denmark from the Riviera, determined that if possible, this voyage should be uneventful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Iced In | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...idea that they may be used in the various phases of training. It is in these training departments that many college people, both men and women, remain sometimes for a number of years, as ability to train sales and other operating personnel is not only interesting, but well paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

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