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One is reminded that politics bear little relation to scholarship, that the men who urge it are seldom scholars, and that the people on whom they depend are much less so. Political agitation, manoeuvering, and conviction depend largely upon impression. Sometimes in the higher reaches of legislative or executive activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL PALAVER | 5/25/1926 | See Source »

These two opposing views, as everyone knows, were presented with the greatest energy by M. Paul-Boncour (France) and Viscount Cecil (Britain) when the Council of the League deliberated upon these questions and many another (TIME, Dec. 21). As a result, it was considered imperative that vital if quite academic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Sometimes the impression was made by placing the human hand against a surface and painting around it and between the fingers. In other cases the red paint was daubed over the hand of the artist and that slapped against a wall.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spinden and Mason, Investigating Mayan Temples, Solve Riddle of Lost Civilization | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

The British Trade Union Council directed its activities last week chiefly to strengthening the morale of the strikers, starting machinery for issuing "strike pay" to the five or six million men who had stopped work, and combating the Government's anti-strike propaganda. As an example of this last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: The Great Challenge | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

By twisting facts and dragging in famed medical names, which he otherwise sneers at, he gives the impression to his misty-minded readers that "correct" diet will cure cancer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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