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Glorious Failure. The four men in the Southern Cross strained eyes and ears. Surely they should have sighted Cape Race by this time. Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Jul. 7, 1930 | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

From a college examination paper in English which has just come to me--the final examination in sophomore English at Yale College--we may believe that examinations are conducted in the ancient fashion of putting a premium on the memorizing of obscure passages, on cramming rather than on knowledge. I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Please Note | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

Abraham Lincoln left later Presidents little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Moderation and Calm Vision | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Sympathetic with the revolutionists but not an active revolutionist himself, Author Gorki has written not propaganda but a chronicle of the Russian intellectuals. The scene is laid in Russia of some 30 years back; the story ends at the time of the late Tsar's coronation. Hero Clim Samghin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smoldering Youth | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

Along the coasts of Oregon and Washington last week, captains of U. S. Coast Guard cutters were waiting the arrival of the Pribilof fur seals, whose annual migration was reported on the move. When the seals were sighted, plunging and barking on their way to the Pribilof Islands off Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Parade to Pribilof | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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