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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once he was so depressed by a chance word of rebuke from his father that he wandered off and disappeared for a time. Per contra, he once jumped from his bed in the middle of the night, intent on performing a newly conceived experiment, rushed to the Neva (on the other side of which stood his father's laboratory), plunged in and swam across. "I could not wait. The ferryboat was delayed," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: No Prizes | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...makeup of the negative team is still tentative. N. S. Howe '26, halfback on the University squad for three years, and J. F. Barnes '27, are expected to uphold football's present position of importance. Definite word has not been received from Dooley as to whether he will complete the trio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEEK WILL CONDEMN FOOTBALL CONDITIONS | 11/27/1925 | See Source »

...must object to your loose and inexact use of the word "pander" in your issue of Sept. 21, in which you refer to "Thomas Cook & Son, and other panders of rubber-neckery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...those of the Facism of Benito Mussolini in Italy, nor of the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in Spain. What we want is another Clemenceau, as Clemenceau was and did in 1917. We want a leader who is real, in whom we can have confidence, and whose word will have authority and power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blue-Shirted | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...When she finds a word she likes or doesn't understand, she looks it up in every available dictionary and studies every possible meaning and use for it. Some of the words she does not fully comprehend, but she learns how to use them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Markham v. Prodigy | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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