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Karl Payer, Socialist Deputy who had helped organize the park mass meeting, suddenly grew frightened at the turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Up With Bela Kun! | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

"It is hard to believe that the South Pole can be vulgarized, but this has now been done and been done thoroughly. One would have supposed that the Antarctic plateau would have rejected the atmosphere of the studios; but Paramount has marvelously subdued it?split polysyllabic heroics over it, decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTARCTICA: South Pole Vulgarized | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

German headline writers attached exclamation points to such belligerent polysyllabic as "MAJESTATSBELEIDIGUNG!" (High Treason!) Wrathy editors distilled their venom into starkly brutal paragraphs. The week brawled out into a stramash of contention?all because some millions of Germans were preparing to seek the polls and cast their ballots upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 5,000,000,000 Marks | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

?In memory of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), who is probably better known to the average U.S. undergraduate today as a character in a ribald polysyllabic ditty beginning: Recent exhaustive researches By Darwin and Huxley and Hall . . . than as the biologist who first generalized upon the development of ectoderm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Medal | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

The radio fans of the Island Empire " listened in " on their radio sets to a polysyllabic discourse on " why inexhaustible light and power can never be provided by the harnessed energy of the elusive atom." Great was the uproar next day from thousands of radioites. " Why did you do it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Over Their Heads | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

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