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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later, when Ambassador Gibson offered to the world in the name of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson what seemed to Mrs. Litvinov basically her husband's plan, she made up her mind that "contemptible" was the right adjective, "bounder" the right noun.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Scorn for Stimson | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

To write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

If one should ask you What is the heart Of Island Yamato- It is the mountain cherry-blossom Which exhales its perfume in the morning sun.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

What Christian Scientists have objected to in all but the authorized life of Mrs. Eddy (The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur) are alleged misstatements, "obnoxious," libelous, about the founder of Christian Science. Author Dakin's book says that Mary Baker Eddy plagiarized, took morphine, made no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scientific Censorship | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

The man in the street watches a 72-story building go up and queries: What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Future Cities | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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