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Eugene Talmadge, Governor of the President's "adopted" State of Georgia, was meanwhile recommending that the Government "print a lot of $10 and $20 bills and scatter them over the country by throwing the money out of airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Next? | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Ting's Tenth | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

Plain were the beauties of this arrangement. It would insulate Russia from the world with a strip of Russians of purest ray serene. It would scatter masses of ordinary Russians where their "lack of cooperation" could do the least harm. It would provide a citizen army at the border in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Sting & Purge | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...into the picture except for the customary reference to Ph.D. specialization. If is to be hoped that some of the problems raised in this first number will be further examined. If the Critic's criticism is to penetrate beneath the surface, it will do well to concentrate rather than scatter its fire. Such problems as those suggested by Mr. Coolidge the value of tutorial work, the policy with regard to House admissions, and the possibility of a pass degree for those students desiring nothing more, have not been here disposed of. If the Critic can stimulate serious discussion of such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOURNAL WILL APPEAR TODAY FOR FIRST TIME | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

...fellow-workers roused his interest in science. He put himself through London University, emigrated to the U. S., returned for the War which "completely reorganized my life." Music struck him all of a heap; Dostoyevsky was a "revelation." He had an unsuccessful love affair, tried to scatter the memory among other women. One of them got a divorce to become his mistress, died before their experiment had completely failed. Now, middleaged, unambitious, disillusioned, he waits to see what will happen with the rest of his life, has no high hopes, except some day to write "an enormous critical study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scientific Autobiography | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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