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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your latest issue [TIME, June 27] you speak of a record-breaking run between Milwaukee and Chicago. On October 18, 1916, Sidney Hatch ran from Milwaukee to Chicago, 95.7 miles, in 14 hr., 50 min., and 30 sec., beating the former record made by Al Corey by 3 hr., 16 min., and 30 sec. Hatch ran every step of the way, making only three stops for a total loss of 16 minutes, and finished strong, although he lost ten pounds. He averaged a mile every eight and one-half minutes. After he finished the run he took a large dish...

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

...ancient maxim, Speak nothing about the Dead except good, was never more flatly disregarded than last week, in Paris, when M. Paul Valery, poet of severe Classicism, was received by the French Academy, amid pomp, and took the seat once occupied by that late famed trifler with life and words, M. Anatole France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: . . . Except Good | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Scowling Marshal. Not without boldness did Henry P'u-Yi speak of China's "rotten generals," at Tientsin last week for even as he spoke two of these generals were entering into an alliance, preparing to march upon Tientsin and Peking with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Gathering Host | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.-ACTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Calvary Baptists | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Hello New York," he said, "this is Churchill. You have a message for Blumenfeld? Will put him on to speak for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blum! Blum! Blum! | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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