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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front-line dressing station during an attack, who have chewed up a towel or two to keep their screams from blending with the shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak with an authority acquired in 18 months spent in such widely separated military hospitals as Royat, Brest, Fox Hills, Cape May, Camp Dodge and Fort Sheridan. Edith's contacts with war-shattered wrecks must have been more extensive than mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...dynamic maxim attributed to Stephen Girard reads: "My deeds must be my life; when I am dead my actions must speak for me." We hope Christian manhood leaving Girard College is eloquent action; a mere educational plant done up in Chester County marble is rather static-entirely speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...announced early last week that plump and amiable Empress Menen of Ethiopia would speak to Britain and the U. S. over the short-wave radio. Italian spies were not caught napping. No sooner did Her Majesty begin in halting French, than on the same wave length blasts of Morse code gibberish drowned out her words. What she was saying in Addis Ababa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR: Last Act | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Getting down to facts, Editor Grey wrote: "The new generation, so to speak, of French bombers is a complete washout. . . . The French single-seat fighters are a washout also. . . . Year after year at the French Aero Show we have been shown the same high-speed French single-seat fighters. We have been told quietly that they were only there for show and that the real things were at Villacoublay or Buc, just being tried out and just about to do wonderful things. But these wonderful machines have never appeared. . . . Our information, which is quite reliable, is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Little Dark Scum | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Immensely pleased last week at finding the Smithsonian Aramaic inscription so corroborative both of Scripture and of his own thesis, Dr. Lamsa exulted: "I believe that, if Christ were alive today, He would speak in Aramaic and that I could talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What Jesus Spoke | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

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