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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished in other words, to regard him as a brick in the structure of things rather than as a human being. Both these books are written with the second purpose. To Mr. Bradford, Darwin is the work he did; to M. Clemenceau, Demosthenes' personality is not worth a tenth the space demanded by his significance in world history...

Author: By J. C. Furnas ., | Title: Biographies of Absorbing Passion | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...President Herbert Smith of the British Miners' Federation revealed last week that $4,000,000 (?822,634) had been contributed to British strike funds by Russian labor. Said he: "Thank God there is some Christianity in Russia T A tenth of all we have paid out to relieve the miners has come from Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Flame but no Fire | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Rabbits had been used for the tests on animal tissue. A tenth of a second's exposure for a patch of ear-skin had made the patch lose its hair and turn dark. Not for seven weeks did hair reap, pear. Another patch was exposed for a second. A scab formed in a few days, fell off taking the hair with it-and in two weeks a growth of new hair, white instead of grey and thrice as profuse as previously, sprouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cathode Rays | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

Chinese celebrated throughout the World last week the "Double Ten Festival," "the tenth day of the tenth month," the day on which a bomb exploded in Hankow fifteen years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Double Ten | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence. During the past year this situation has sensationally reversed itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Double Ten | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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