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...pale and weedy Cambridge student then: a Boer-accented colonial, fresh from the schools of the Cape Colony, a grave and talented adolescent with a passion for reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Holist from the Transvaal | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Additional news did not come from the U.S. but from England. Flight, a trade magazine unbound by strict U.S. censorship, had given British readers some details of the secret weapon the U.S. is readying for battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Superfortress | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...model. She shanghaies Maisie's pilot into betrothal. She is even more bored than Maisie with the richly kidded clubs for "Ladies in Waiting" (girls who are waiting for servicemen to come home) which are set up to boost the morale of women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood Apartments, where "opium smoking is not permitted in the corridors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...married Leonard Sidney Woolf, a liberal journalist and literary critic. Their tall house in Bloomsbury soon became the nucleus of a literary set, the "Bloomsbury Group." The Woolfs housed their Hogarth Press under the same roof. There, in "an immense half-subterranean room, piled with books, parcels, packets of unbound volumes, manuscripts from the press," Virginia Woolf wrote. Many of her friends have been politically active feminists, and from her study Virginia Woolf has done her bit for woman's cause. Her essay on the position of women stated the now-classic requisite of modern women who want independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Time Passes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...holding an impressive exhibition of Persian art. Though borrowed entirely from Manhattan Collector Hagop Kevorkian, it was a show worth the most chauvinistic Detroiter's time. On display were dozens & dozens of luminous blue-green pots, plates, vases, more than 100 jewel-like miniatures, illustrations for books and unbound manuscripts that first brought Persian art to the attention of the Western world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pots & Pictures | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

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