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...would have made but a scant meal for any one of them, but looking at the mountainous beasts, his rivals, with a gaze of bleak hauteur. Long silky hair clothed his bandy legs in elegance and provided him with a beard which would have commanded respect from a Saxon monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pointer vs. Airedale | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...beard like a Saxon monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...which side does the real debt lie? Let us speak the truth. Our Anglo-Saxon friends like that, and there are many who share our opinion. France isn't pleading her cause. She has given her signature and she will respect it, but she demands as her right and not as an act of grace that there be taken into account in the settlement her side of the balance sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Five Hour Speech | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...even forbade him to raise an endowment fund by outside subscription. As to library and laboratory, their liberality knows no bound short of an unbalanced budget. Undergraduates are trained to the manipulation of microscope and dissecting knife. Doctorates in philosophy are awarded for theses on the digamma in Anglo-Saxon or on the iota subscript in Greek dialect. But if young men and women are bent upon analyzing the life about them, on assembling the results of their observation in dramatic character, upon organizing it in dramatic action illumined by the accent and vernacular of today, they and the teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 12/20/1924 | See Source »

Motivated by the Anglo-Saxon urge of law-enforcement, two bodies made contrary recommendations on the same day. Both aimed to allay the almost universally acknowledged super-Nation in the enforcement of its prohibition law. One, the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, of which Chief Justice Taft is Chairman, petitioned Attorney General Stone to recommend, in his report to Congress, that the Prohibition Unit be transferred from the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. The other, the Anti-Saloon League, urged the President to expedite the passage of the Cramton Bill, which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Unit | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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