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Word: spartan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contain a single photograph of famed Leon Trotsky, who is now exiled and disgraced; 2) Leninism by Josef Stalin ($2.50), the doctrines of the "Father of Soviet Russia" expounded by the present Dictator; and 3) The New Theatre and Cinema of Soviet Russia ($6), a vivid mingling of Spartan text and exuberant pictures, displaying the only world-known and world-admired Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietana | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Dictator and Wife dwell with their only child in rooms of spartan simplicity within the frowning, huge-walled Kremlin. No Soviet news organ, magazine or book is permitted to reveal personal news of this seclusive Caesar's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Wives | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPARTAN GRAVE RELIEFS | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...uncovered. Condensation was the main need. Editor Archibald used to say to us scribes: "If you have an idea for a story see if you can boil it down to ten-line par [paragraph] and then to a one-line epigram." As he paid only on space it was Spartan ruling. The best sonnets ever written by Aussies-Bayldons on Marlowe and O'Downds "Last sea-thing dredged by sailor Time from Space"-received the same pay as a dog fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...present, however, there is no cause of alarm. At almost any minute of the day one may see splendid examples of courage and quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HARDY RACE | 2/25/1927 | See Source »

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