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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question was, wrote Editor de Jouvenel, whether the Great Powers are sincere in their ostensible trust in the League as an agency of international concord or whether they prefer to deal darkly with one another behind the League's back. Such dealing, de clared M. de Jouvenel, has been continuously the policy of Aristide Briand, although that statesman, it is well known, praises the League with high emotional fervor in his public speeches (TIME, Sept...
Personally I should prefer that the word "Army" should never occur on the same page with "Boy Scout." Youngsters who charge up a "good deed" to themselves every day (or is it three times a day?) are, in my estimation, little prigs...
...lightest bidding because they regard her, informal and feline, as their equal on their own ground, plus much mysterious charm and knowledge from an unimaginable outer world of limousines, libraries, lingerie and grand manners. Her wealth seems fabulous to them, inspiring not envy but institutional faith. They prefer her checks to regular currency and seldom cash them, bringing old ones in to be rewritten after perhaps two years of passing from hand to hand...
...bacteria-say 'germs' if you prefer-finding suitable food, multiply and form groups, or colonies. Each colony represents the growth from one bacterium. These colonies were counted and by calculation the total number of germs clinging to the part of the powder puff used was obtained. This number multiplied by four of course gave the total count for the entire puff. It was 20,000. Twenty thousand bacteria clinging to a powder puff to be used on a clean face...
Inclosed $8 to continue my subscription two years. TIME is indispensable to me, a clergyman. Each week my son ( 17 ) tries to get it first. I usually read RELIGION, SCIENCE, MISCELLANY, then begin at the front cover and go through. I prefer to do so at one sitting. It is exhilarating, giving me the sense of having seen the living, pulsating processes of history in the making...