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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavy a journal finds its way to your editorial table. I don't feel competent to write a paragraph for TIME, but if you will permit me I shall be very glad indeed to mail you the journal, and one of your editors might handle this interesting subject. It is intimated that later the girls of Vassar, Wellesley, etc., are to be measured. It seems the cephalic index (head) varies from 71 to 71.00 mm. Also, in Table 73 is set forth the leg lengths of these young ladies, which vary from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Much has been written on the subject of the recovery of Europe since the War. Many events in the present international arena, moreover, emphasize the fact that the progress of Europe is still the world's major economic problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Partisanship Cannot Injure Mutual Interests of Great Continents Declares Klein | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...long procession of all orders of men, from the Pope to the lowest of human beings. Each figure has his partner, Death, the meagre spectre who leads the dance, shaking his remembering hour glass. The old peet, Lydgate, who flourished in the year 1430, translated a poem on the subject, from the French verses which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject, and the origin of the hint from which Holbein executed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE DANCE OF DEATH" OF HOLBEIN ON DISPLAY | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...subject of the Newark debate is: Resolved, That as part of its disarmament program the United States should promise to cooperate with other notions to protect a disarmed nation from an unjust attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debating Subject Announced | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

...impression not only as a scholar but as a personality. His most not able achievements, of course, have been in his research. But both in his books and o the lecturing platform he has demonstrated that if he digs deep for erudition he brings out the interest of his subject without the dust that has settled on his remote sources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROAD TO OXFORD | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

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