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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consulting with Cram & Ferguson, architects of the Cathedral, on the design of the sarcophagus. Recently, on a motor trip through New England with her brother, she called on the architects at their Boston office and accepted the final plans-a very simple marble tomb with a crusader's sword lying in relief upon its cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Dead Crusader | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

...Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword of purity as ordained by the Prophet. Was this to be the beginning of a holy war? No man could answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEJAZ: Religious War | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

Undoubtedly the "Goose-Step" author exaggerates and asserts a mistaken opinion when he makes the blanket charge that the control exercised on our educational institutions by "big business" is always pernicious. But he proclaims a truth when he contends that such control leaves a Damoclean sword forever over the head of liberalism in our colleges. The financier-educators may cut the thread at any moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAGE MR. UPTON SINCLAIR! | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

...with the hope that this sword may never threaten at Harvard that the CRIMSON extends a hearty welcome to Mr. Eliott in his new position. In spite of the cautious and reactionary attitude toward education of his "big business" world, the CRIMSON hopes that Mr. Eliott will always be found on the side of liberalism when troublesome educational problems are to be decided. May he prove Mr. Upton Sinclair wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAGE MR. UPTON SINCLAIR! | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

...After having destroyed the tomb of Eben Abdarsi, they killed the people, respecting neither young infants nor the aged. In a word, all people were passed under the sword, including foreign subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Hejamy Massacre | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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