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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those tears are precious, for they show that the grace of God and the tenderness of Jesus have at last wormed their way even into the hard, flint-like heart of a scorner and a scoffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Necaragua | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Also in his last letter he challenges Christians to "Show your colors or shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...will, I assure him, "Show our colors, but whether he will ever be able to distinguish them from the blue sky above is another question. As a matter of fact they are so high now that they are beyond his low line of vision and have floated there since the beginning of the year 1 A. D. nay since Abel built his altar which was sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...According to despatches, a Philadelphian, to show his friend how the moot blow landed, pinched his friend quickly on stomach and chin. The friend toppled, fractured his skull, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Calif., for Honolulu in mid-Pacific. "Foggy as hell," snapped Flyer Smith's first signals. Then he seemed to get used to it and flashed: "Going fine ... we will run out of it soon." Again, he said: "Go-ing strong. . . . Radio beacon working great." The strain began to show in a later message: "Receiving set on the bum .... don't worry me," but still the sender signed a jaunty, "So long." Early in the second day fog-fear had them fairly. Flying through or above obscurity, they had not seen the Pacific since they left shore. Head winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fog Flight | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

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