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Quizzical folk wondered what would be the condition of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen 19 years hence. It was 19 years ago that Walter Wellman attempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon. He was forced back to Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobile v. Ellsworth | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Here is her trouble when Brand and Emma reach her in response to her summons: Elliott is days late in returning. Something has surely happened, probably to the boy. Wracked already, she is bitter with hate for Elliott when he does appear, dry-mouthed, caked with dust, to say he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mary Stuart | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Journalistic wit and an old proverb united delectably on the front page of yesterday's Boston Herald. A telephone call, which specified house and street, but not the need, sent an engine of the Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE TIMES FOUR | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

Most men of God regard a call to a cosmopolitan, particularly a Manhattan, congregation as a clear summons from on high commanding them to go forth to larger things. Sometimes they see in such a call an honest opportunity for doing good on a greater scale; sometimes they go because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dr. Kirk | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

Once a year, just before the season begins, Manager Gatti issues his summons so that he can answer at a single sitting the plaguing interrogations of the press. New operas are to be given, new singers heard; Manager Gatti-Casazza had promised to give details. Yet the reporters, when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Kahn & Mr. Gatti | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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