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EARTH MOODS-Hervey Allen-Harper ($2.00). With the sure, strong voice that is none but his own, Poet Allen now sings as "a watcher of the high-skies" of the earth's aging, "the expressions of time upon the face of the planet." As well as the poet'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Stature | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

Beneath the ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres, in the last, gloomy days of 1914, sat an old soldier on a white horse : Field Marshal Sir John French, tears streaming down his face, watched the remnants of the "Old Contemptibles" (Regular Army) file past him after their place in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Wipers Dead | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

In Cincinnati, last week, was held the 26th biennial music festival, one of the oldest, most thriving traditions of its kind in the U. S. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, directed by Franz van der Stuckin, a festival chorus, a children's chorus of 300 thin but adeptly trained voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Cincinnati | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

Another was equally assertive on his subject. "Science is the cornerstone of our education here at Dravrah. Every Satellite must spend two hours a week weighing, dissecting, analyzing, measuring, tabulating, deciphering, and cataloguing the natural elements. I teach these young men to think in terms of pounds, masses, kilometers, millimeters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 2 | 4/17/1925 | See Source »

Man has made a game of his long war with space. It gives him immense amusement and satisfaction, by virtue of some obscure mental deficiency, to measure the speed of his puny limbs against some unit of speed; such researches he terms "sport," tabulates his results with infinite precision, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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