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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Florentine Revival | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Since then Germany has been threaded by a vast system of canals and waterways, linking its many rivers, providing cheap transportation in peace time and invaluable aid in war, when railroads are occupied with troop and munition movements. Last week the Baltic Sea was joined to this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Charlemagne to Adolf | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Between the Japanese Army and Navy rivalry is always intense and in the China war local army and navy bigwigs have frequently worked at cross purposes. When the army columns belatedly arrived in Hankow last week the army commanders decided to use buildings in the refugee zone as troop billets and Father Jacquinot, after spending thousands of dollars of relief money, was ordered out. A new zone was established in the Chinese native sector on the Han River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Safety Zones | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Superpatriot | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Germany charged that Czech planes had flown over German frontier territory during the week, photographing military emplacements and attempting to locate non-existent German troop concentrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inflamed Appendix | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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