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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries, courtyards and abodes of the Vatican Palace are ancient, convolved, mysterious. So darkly rooted is the Papal tradition of secrecy that only last week was the United Press able to report an accident which occurred in hushed Vatican precincts some seven months ago, and is thought to have influenced the Pontiff's recent decision to sell the last of his horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blood of the Horse | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Even the Arabs, who in Palestine out-number Jews by seven to one, were content last week to let Jews worship in peace. And to crown their worship came the formal dedication of a gift to Palestine from U. S. Jewish Philanthropist Nathan Straus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passover | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Biblical Passover is seven days. In Biblical times, however, messengers went to notify the people of the impending holiday, sometimes arrived late. An eighth day was therefore allotted to insure a full holiday. Today Orthodox Jews celebrate eight days, Reformed Jews seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passover | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping down from their tops, and of the bridge itself, hung from these chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 40 Years | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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