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...west side of the foyer, in a grove of potted palms, the red-jacketed Marine Band blares martially. Young military aides ply softly up and down, keeping the line of guests moving decorously but swiftly into the State Dining Room, where the faint may refresh themselves with clear ice water from a mahogany sideboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lone Scout | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...expenses (shoeblacking, meals, uniforms), for a 400-hr. month. The scale the Brotherhood proposed was $150 for a 240-hour month. The porters also objected to "doubling out" assignments, where porters who have just finished a trip are ordered out on another trip before they have had time to refresh themselves with sleep, baths, visits home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Porters | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...anxious observer may tremble for the fate of the reading period with such quantity of competing attractions. But reading lists cannot be pursued twenty-four hours a day, and diversions such as these can refresh the weary minds with good effect. On the whole the only fear to be expressed is that the present calendar be changed, for Boston has not always been, so fortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT PLAYGOER | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

...attention of His Holiness was not, however, directed entirely toward the actions of his U. S. servants. He spoke to 1,000 new members of the Catholic Youth Associations on the subject of athletic and other amusements, saying in heartfelt manner: "Amusements serve to refresh the spirit which otherwise would be too strained and unable to perform with satisfactory capacity its high noble functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Papal Week | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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