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Word: periodical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London newspaper reported. This may seem a very trivial rebuke, and so it would be, had not your paragraph unwittingly slandered the one man in London who has looked after the hats and coats of more well-known people than anyone else in the world; and furthermore, in a period of 43 years has never had an accident happen to any of them, to say nothing of having them STOLEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 13, 1927 | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Majesty King Ferdinand, long invalid and often sick to the point of death, made a dramatic gesture on the station platform at Bucharest, as he entrained to pass a period of recuperation, last week, at his hunting castle at Scrobesti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Piteous Monarch | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Communist Nationalists" at Hankow who seemed to have composed their differences with the Conservative Nationalists last week, and to be re-establishing a stable regime in which the Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin (see RUSSIA) was again prominent after a period of eclipse. 2)The "Conservative Nationalists" of Nanking who were rapidly pushing toward Peking last week, led by their generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. 3) The "Independent Nationalist" army of General Feng Yusiang, likewise advancing on Peking from Honan Province

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Northward Advance | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Director-in-chief Hofmann's pol icy will doubtless continue to permit Curtis Institute teachers to perform as well as instruct. Active interplay of public and professional life keeps classrooms alive. Herr Hofmann was himself taught by Anton Rubenstein at an active period during the latter's career. Conversely, Herr Hofmann has found time during his best piano years for activities outside the concert hall, not only teaching but inventing mechanisms. Many a luxurious motor car bears Hofmann shock absorbers. By a Hofmann device, the finest shadings of a master's touch can be charted beside the perforations in pianola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Philadelphia | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...personal element in collegiate journalism of the period is plainly seen in the printing of this article. In these late times it is not the fashion for the journals of the larger masculine universities to run special dispatches from their dainty neighbors, but in the Elegant Eighties the editors decided that news was scarce, and after all it was spring, and gave out bulletins calculated to cheer the hearts of their readers. The social revelation of Vassar follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Spring an Editor's Fancy Used to Turn to Thoughts of His Feminine Neighbors--"Herald" Told of Vassar Society | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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