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The League of Nations' Committee on the Court, anxious to have even temporary U. S. participation, approved the Root Formula eagerly (TIME, April 1 1929). But Senate diehard opponents of the Court hoped the President would keep the matter on his desk for a long time. Last week Floorleader...
Guelphs and Ghibellines are names familiar to historians, confusing to the laity. Guelph comes from hwelp or whelp, meaning a wolf's pup, and Ghibelline is an Italian attempt to pronounce the name of the counts of Waiblingen.
Harvard stops at ostentation, Yale at baggy trousers, Dartmouth at the end of the ski-jump, and Radcliffe at practically nothing. Such, in the monotonous nutshell, are the findings of a group of advanced psychology students from three of these four leaves of the New England clover of culture. Admittedly...
What dictionary does TIME use to get such accurate and complete meanings of the words it uses? My F. & W. gives no meaning of "chuffed" which fits TIME'S use of it.
Twice the Gloucester fire-whistle had blown five long blasts in the morning, meaning that because the wind was light there would be no race that day. Since the day Gertrude L. Thebaud won the first race (TIME, Oct. 20), the fishing schooners had planned often to race, but accidents...