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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interviewed she said: "My new name was that of an Indian Queen born centuries before Christ. ... I am now a Hindu, but I hope that the true spirit of Christianity will continue to guide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stars, Moon, Sun | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh was the 67th man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Three thousand indignant letter-writers demanded that Mr. Ripley apologize. He calmly informed them that Alcock and Brown made a nonstop flight between Newfoundland and Ireland in 1919, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Believe It or Not | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Queen's College, Oxford, and Canon of Hereford, England, will give the first lecture in the series of Hewett lectures at 8 o'clock tonight in Emerson J on "Diversity in the Early Church." Streeter is the author of "Reality," "Restatement and Reunion," and the editor of "The Spirit" and "Adventure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Streeter to Lecture Tonight | 3/23/1928 | See Source »

...attempt to have the Indian develop a distinct art of his own, based on the design and color of the older traditions. Most of these paintings portray various ceremonies of peace and war. However, many of the war dances are in reality peace dances performed in a religious spirit to celebrate the close of hostilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Whether spring practice is to make football more a hectic, gruelling business or more of a normal game played primarily for the pleasure in playing it depends largely on the spirit in which the spring season is undertaken and the ends it is intended to serve. In some colleges spring practice has been a large element in reducing football to profession--a profession which claims the exclusive attention of a large number of athletes for the entire year and in which the remnants of sport for pleasure or for health are scarcely discernible. From the start of the spring season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING FOOTBALL | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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