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...when the International Court is ready to settle the whole matter in a peaceable manner. The Turks forget that they and their diplomacy are well known all over the world and especially in Europe; thus, with everyone on the alert, the worst effect of their scheming will be to prolong the conference. If, however, the Turks are as anxious for peace as they have so consistently stated-and this is probably true, because they have everything to gain from an early peace-they will certainly allow the Allies and the United States to fight the matter out in the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Turks Say Chester. But What of It? | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...state of disorganization at the end of its career. The Senate was peevish and forgot the traditional courtesy of thanking the Vice President and the President pro tem. The House was boisterous, with the assistance of the Marine Band and much backslapping. Nobody turned the legislative clock back to prolong the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gone Home! | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...target for practice by the giant Mississippi, most powerful ship afloat. Under radio control she will be given a run for her life, dodging, turning and racing her engines in a final effort to escape. Five-inch guns, then 14-inch rifles will pour their fire into her. To prolong her agonies special shells will be used and wireless-controlled pumps will try to keep her above water. If by some desperate chance she survives, the once proud Iowa will be sold as junk. Night attacks upon the Panama Canal defenses, thought to be impregnable, will be made under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fleet Manoeuvers | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...Debt owed by Britain to America has been settled. The British Government has decided not to rake up the ashes of the past and thus prolong a futile discussion. Harvey's remarks will therefore go ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: That Speech | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

When we hear that a young Brazilian scientist has landed in New York who claims that by a process of blood irrigation he can revive the dead, change a negro into a white man, reduce one's necessary modicum of sleep from eight hours to one, and indefinitely prolong life, we do not know whether to be amused or amazed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUMAN ALCHEMY | 3/21/1922 | See Source »

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