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...copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands as a Red chieftain), but not the manuscript of the history, which he snatched up as he fled.* In seclusion at the Hotel de Savoie on Prinkipo Island, he issued a statement blaming the fire on an overheated stove, denying rumors that White Russians or adherents of the present Red Regime had set the blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Theory of Relativity. I am not interested so much in the proof submitted to substantiate the theory as I am in discussion of what the theory is. I am not particularly interested in holding a girl on my lap for an hour or sitting on a hot stove for one minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Sold!" said Mr. Lundahl, and the little crowd which had huddled around the old wood-burning stove prepared to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: C. & A. Sale | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed to the wheel day & night, three worked the pumps, three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Epilog | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...humble Japanese mountaineer one chill evening long ago was sitting close to his stove when there came a knock on the worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: U. S. Agar-Agar | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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