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This year, too, the vanguard of locusts flew off over the Red Sea as they invariably do, continuing on to Transjordania, where last week 25,000 natives were busy under British officers trying to exterminate them. One of the largest swarms which ever crossed the Red Sea, that of 1889, had an estimated area of 2,000 square miles, darkened the sky for days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Plague of Locusts | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...OBSCENE?-Mary Ware Dennett -Vanguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Facts of Life | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

...Vanguard of Philippine Independence Mission leaves Manila for Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...When we have industrialized the Soviet Union and set the mujiks [peasants] to driving tractors, let the honorable capitalists with their 'civilization' try to outstrip us. Then we shall see which country can be called backward and which the vanguard of human progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Love Song | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Frankly, Professor Rogers prefers the active man, the man in the vanguard, who drops shibboleths for living principles: the one who in other words, if not better, is at least different. Liberalism, being essentially a sort of seeking the golden megs, is not calculated to inspire a young man sufficiently to bring out in him that highest of all qualities which Professor Rogers' insight has discovered and his eloquence has set forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITH MY LITTLE HATCHET | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

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