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The brow of II Capo del Governo contracted as he formulated a definition. Soon it boomed from his heavy lips: "Persecution! Recall the meaning of that word. Persecution only begins where no reasonable proportion is observed between the force used in compulsion and the importance of the interests which it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deportations | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

It is from the Ecclesiastical History written by the "venerable" Bede that we gain what knowledge there is of Cadman and for that matter of Bede himself. In a short biographical note at the end of the History he says in conclusion. "From the time of my admission to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

* Newsstand-buyer Spahling's meaning is obscure but presumably "hister," pronounced with the "i" long, means "hoister" or "beer-hoister," slang noun.-ED. † The print order of this issue is 154,000 copies.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

* Original meaning: a triangular skysail, of small utility and perhaps mythical existence, hoisted by U. S. skippers to make good their boast of the world's tallest chips.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Skyward | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Upon these two hypotheses, then, that faculties and students should be colleagues rather than master and man, and that the way to get a responsible attitude toward study is to grant responsibility in the conduct and choice of study, would propose certain fields for investigation by the National Student Federation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Not Trusted by College Presidents Asserts MacCracken | 12/10/1926 | See Source »

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