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Throughout the War he was regarded in Allied countries as the vigilant apostle of preparedness to whom France owed her ability to resist the German hordes. At present the so-called "revisionist historians" are busy with piles of documents released from the secret archives of Austria-Hungary and Russia, on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Presidents, Premiers | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

But not until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storks, Whales | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Red Top, Conn., June 7--The coaching launches for the second successive year having narrowly escaped shots from the over-vigilant coast-guard, who insist on mistaking them for rum-runners joined the crews here late last night to complete the training camp. As usual the Freshmen are established in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COAST GUARD FAILS TO STOP UNIVERSITY CREWS | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

Vigilant U. S. patriots felt the deepest marrow of their bones chill with affrighted horror last week at despatches reporting that the notorious German Captain Karl Boy-Ed was seeking a visa to enter the U. S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Is Boy-Ed Coming? | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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