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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Mussolini, presented him with a five kilowatt broadcasting outfit of the selective wave or narrowcasting type. . . . Last week, in my apartment in Palazzo Massimi, I was lighting an old-fashioned gas water-heater, when it exploded, severely burning my face, eyebrows and hair. Although I am suffering considerable pain, I hope to be completely recovered in two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...probably contributed in no small measure to the cup of revelry. In 1722 there was a law prohibiting the students from preparing or providing either plum cake, or roasted, baked, or boiled meats, or pies of any kind, and from furnishing distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith upon pain of being fined 20 shillings, and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors." Evidently distilled liquors, or any Composition made therewith, were not considered as noxious in the possession of the tutors as in that of the undergraduates. And one cannot help wondering what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Poem of 1718 by Unknown Author Describes Revels of Old-Time Seniors at Commencement | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Georges Pierre, 55, racked with pain on an adjoining bed, found himself unable to sleep, thought to silence M. Clet's groans and snores by whaling him with a stout leather belt. The ruse succeeded. Quiet soon reigned. M. Pierre slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: In North Carolina | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Exhaustion numbs pain. Flyer Bettis crawled over the field and fell asleep in the middle of a road, "although it was raining pretty hard." No car came. The road was under construction and most traffic was detoured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On Bald Eagle Ridge | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...Bellefonte hospital they took care of Lieutenant Bettis, and then a passenger plane, equipped with an invalid hammock, rushed him to Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C. Physicians marveled at his stamina, pronounced him convalescent despite 43 hours of pain and exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On Bald Eagle Ridge | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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