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Eight hundred and seventeen delegates assembled within the walled and turreted Kremlin last week. Lumbering peasants, stalwart workers, stern or oleaginous officials, they made up the 15th Conference of the Communist Party. One-fourth of them were empowered to take the floor in reply to a question from the Chair. One-sixth could comment on the debate. One-fourteenth were authorized to make speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flame but no Fire | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...timeworn proverb in effect, are the result of little acorns, and it might be added, acorns nurtured under suitable conditions. Just so in literature great movements spring from relatively small beginnings aided by favorable outward circumstances, and while I hesitate to call the efforts of the writers of early seventeen hundreds small, yet they were but as the bird compared to the burst of bloom which appeared toward the middle of the century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...shot the white man Marvin," ran the confession of Eskimo, Kudlooktoo. "Seventeen years ago I shot him to save the life of my friend Inuhitsoq. Now I am a Christian. I have just learned to be a Christian. I confess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Revelation | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...Climax. Seventeen years ago this play was given to Manhattan and seemed to please. As resuscitated to amuse the captious and discerning playgoer of the present, it seems simply another revival. In this season, after about 30 of them, revivals have become a drug on the Manhattan market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 24, 1926 | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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