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...covers are performing their respective tasks to my unlimited satisfaction and I am confident Bushman and Bloodhound are doing the best they know, each according to his light. As to the writer of the letter, John Limond Hart, it is merely that I challenge his judgment, and, then, in sorrow. I do not contest his qualifications to present any of the refinements, the mysteries of life-art, archaeology, technocracy, zoology, psychology, thyroid condition, longevity-because he has reached that age when, to the normal American male youth, adolescence goes definitely over the top with a bang, when all knowledge either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1933 | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...Albany Episcopalians protested against Presiding Bishop Perry "giving sorrow to the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church by his attendance at such [Anglo-Catholic] Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anglican Revival | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

Yellow Dragon. Famed for centuries as "China's Sorrow" and the "Curse of the Sons of Han," the Yellow Dragon staged its most spectacular Hood in 1852 when it shifted its entire course from the south side to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Ever since it has discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Muddy Dragons | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jun. 26, 1933 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...company who had put up his bail guarded his life, as it was evident from letters he had left that the old man's despondency was great. The letters contained references to his son Alan whose death in an automobile accident in 1928 was a source of constant sorrow to Mr. Harriman and to whose grave he went directly after escaping from the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mr. Harriman Seeks Rest | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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