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Those who rode in Pullmans down the east coast of Florida on the afternoon of July 18, 1926, were hot and drowsy. Most of them slouched and slumbered in their seats; others gazed, stupidly, at real estate advertisements in newpapers. At Palatka, Fla., on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, husky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pullman Ouster | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

For the last 26 of the 162 years of Harvard Hall's existence, a bell weighing only 550 pounds has been anathema to drowsy denizens of the Yard as it bellowed forth its call to chapel. Future generations, however, will have eight times as much provocation for invoking the Deity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Turn Deaf Ear" Becomes Impossibility as 4500-Pound Tocsin in Harvard Hall Blasts Cloistered Calm of Yard | 9/28/1926 | See Source »

The proceedings by which this was accomplished were studiously devoid of drama. The Council learned last March that the world cannot be let in on the rivalries of nations for permanent Council seats without disastrous results. At that time the demands of Spain, Poland and Brazil for permanent seats led...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Portentous Compromise | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Famed Ladies' Home Journalist Edward William Bok was cradled at drowsy Helder, in the Netherlands, has achieved newsboy-to-vice-president&* success during his last 47 years (spent mostly in the U. S.). Recently he returned to the Netherlands, ferreted (with intent to laud) into the question of how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Success | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Up to drowsy, Berkshire-cradled Williamstown, Mass., there climbs panting, every Summer, a special train freighted with potent financiers, learned professors, bustling lesser statesmen and inevitable news gatherers. They are greeted by beaming President Harry A. Garfield of Williams College. For the space of a lunar month they constitute The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Institute of Politics | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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