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...highest justice. Justice is defined by Justinian as "a firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Summa Justitia* | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...second place, the Indians are not fundamentally an honest people. If Great Britain really desires to keep India, she must keep a firm rule. They cannot govern themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahatma Hunter | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Knock it out of the lot, Eddie!" Cobb may have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations to comply with the arbiter's command. He walked slowly to the players' bench. He drew a glass of ice cold water; drank it with time out between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Soda Pop | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...George Eastman (kodaks) at Rochester, N. Y.: "It is with great pride and great joy that I have just signed the agreement which associates my name with yours." He referred to last week's purchase of Pathé-Cinema control by Kodak Ltd., Mr. Eastman's English firm. The new company Kodak-Pathé, will be sole distributor of Kodak and Pathé in Western Europe. There are separate Eastman kodak companies in England, Canada, Hungary and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion & a Half | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...inspiring Andante Cantabile of Tschaikowsky with a feeling they had seldom known before. Below them in a flower-banked casket, their director lay dead. He, Walter Henry Rothwell, had died of apoplexy, seated at the wheel of his automobile. Through eight seasons he had guided their destinies with a firm hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Departures | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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