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...TIME Magazine and yet he did not think that any malice or slander was intended by the designation "young Jew." Mrs. Rheinstrom's objection simply represents Jewish hyper-sensitiveness which very often looks for anti-Semitism and finds it in places where it does not begin to exist. The fact of the matter is that we ought to be glad that Mr. Gershwin was characterized by a Gentile writer as "young Jew". Whenever American newspapers give accounts of crime they will very frequently tell you that this or that criminal is Jewish. On the other hand, whenever they describe...
...from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows, no Chinaman can exist. But the sightseers were not deceived...
...months later, Kemal exiled his Calif and abolished the Califate altogether, TIME, March 17, 1924). Immed- iately, throughout the Moslem world, there appeared claimants for the great title, the chief one being King Hussein of the Hedjaz. But, at the moment, the Califate cannot be said to exist...
...year ago, President Hopkins of Dartmouth College received, by request, a report on "the liberal college," why it should exist, how it ought to work- from a dozen members of his Senior class. The students had gathered their information, resolved their theories, on visits to numerous U. S. institutions of higher learning (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924). Then, in May, President Hopkins received and had published A Study of the Liberal College by Prof. Richardson of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, whom he had commissioned to visit colleges abroad, especially in England (TIME...
...fabulous continent described by Plato and early historians as lying outside the Pillars of Herculles (Gibralter) extending far westward, well populated and highly civilized as late as 9558 B.C. From the appearance of lava dredged by cable-layers, some scientists hold that Atlantis did exist (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), that it was split in two volcanically. the eastern half submerging, peaks of the western half (Antilia) remaining today as the Antilles (West Indies). Alleged cranial similarities between natives of Venezuela and Canary Islanders, also between fossil flors and fauna of France and the U.S., constitute other "evidence...