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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifth Worst Accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...that Pope Pius said "we least of all expected heretical and worse than heretical expressions as to the very essence of Christianity and Catholicism. Distinguishing between historical and doctrinal affirmations would be in the manner of the worst and most condemnable modernism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Animosity in Soul | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Quake | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Brown's riot, the worst of the three, came the evening of a day on which venerable Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce had made a last appearance in chapel to announce his retirement after 30 years as Brown President.* Clad in pajamas, the freshmen assembled to burn their class neckties and march down College Hill through the trolley tunnel to the centre of Providence. Contrary to tradition, the tunnel was guarded by police, entrance therein refused. Came the first fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eggs, Billies, Bullets | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...last the law prevailed. Superintendent of Police William O'Neil called it "the worst riot in my 40 years' experience. . . . Not the students' fault . . . the rabble around them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Eggs, Billies, Bullets | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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