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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence of half a dozen student friends. "There is no limit to freedom of the will!" raged Student Slovo-chotov, "I am prepared to do anything at any time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Absorbing Question | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...Yes, I knew Sitting Bull," the tanned, "blue-eyed pathfinder continued when he of the scribbling race had withdrawn him to the more purified region of a tiny lake. "He was a big disappointment. After the battle of Big Horn, which he merely directed from the sidelines, he and his squad of squaw men fled over the border into the greed Canadian territory. Customer's men couldn't follow them, and although we didn't hanker for their presence we had to put up with it. I talked with Sitting Bull in conferences an found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Make Best Guides in the Yoho Says Dean of Kicking Horse Trail--Sitting Bull Grandstand Coach, He Opines | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...Yes, on the shelf directly ahead of you, second section to the left of the mantel. They are bound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Books Stray From Farnsworth Room, Where Student Peruses "Punch" Daily and Librarian Lends a Nickel | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...another occasion," continued the experienced librarian, "I had been watching a young man diligently inspect the Emerson and Fielding shelf for some time without apparently being able to discover just what he wanted. When I asked if he could be helped he replied quickly, 'Oh, yes, I was looking to see if there was anybody here who would give me two nickels for a dime. I wanted to telphone.' I insisted that he take the only nickel. I had in change although he wanted to give me the dime. He went away happy, and returned the loan the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Books Stray From Farnsworth Room, Where Student Peruses "Punch" Daily and Librarian Lends a Nickel | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Hello, Central, give me the Chicago Underworld, please--Yes, hello is this Chicago--; central you cut me off. Hello, hello--Chicago Underworld? What? what was that? the Chicago Underworld? Oh, the New York Journal (in high disgust). We must have got the wires mixed...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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