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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although the author intended to remain anonymous," said a government official secretary, "the book is so intimate that his identity could easily be detected." With only this for a clue, editors busily listed all the King's personal friends who might have written such a book; thoughtfully checked and rechecked the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Despite the "impressively negative" popular vote, Swiss Drys gained one victory last week. Unknown individuals have ordered the cocktail bar in the basement of the League of Nations Secretariat to remain closed each day until 12 noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Impressively Negative | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Chile and Peru have both prospered in the past 40 years. Both nations hailed the Hoover solution joyously. Bolivia's sorrow was that she has been cut off from the sea for 46 years and now seems sure to remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Hoover Solution | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Much of the mumbo-jumbo ritual that used to delight the world of the universities has disappeared; part of it has died a natural death, part has been deliberately discarded. There are some aspects of it which will in all probability remain as long as the colleges do, for the human attachment to ceremony is strong. Commencement crowds look for a certain amount if it, but in a university where oratory has generally sunk so low in undergraduate favor, it would seem that if unwilling Seniors must still speak at their graduation, the audience might be given the choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DECLAMATION | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...surplus, is fully sufficient to insure the fulfillment of its particular needs. For it is estimated that aside from the $225,000 to be invested in permanent improvements during the next year, and aside from $166,000 that now is to be devoted to the gymnasium, there will yet remain a surplus amounting to $350,000 in the H. A. A.. treasury at the end of the year 1930. Consequently, if the possibility of any beneficence hovers over the edge of the horizon, the Physics department seems most deserving of sympathy, most dependent upon outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CORPORATION VOTES | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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