Word: pendulum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some extent, however, the pendulum has swung back, and already a popular magazine of large circulation has chronicled the exploits of Von Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...
...dream that some day I would have come back to life, among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me." Despondent, indeed, was the tone of Mr. Sacco's letter and gloomy the outlook for both Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti. For the pendulum that has for seven years swung between life and death last week swung toward death again. Since the publication of sensational affidavits alleging unfairness by Trial-Judge Webster Thayer (TIME, May 16) and the investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case by Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts and his Advisory Committee (TIME, June...
Recent close association with the efforts of famous men had somewhat addled his brain. He did not realize that clocks do not run backwards smoothly. And so his glorious historical pageant merely peeps groggily from behind the swinging pendulum. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Arthur's nightshirt and Cyrano's nose, but they are distorted to no effect. Yet Lampy slumbers on. He snores. He wheezes. The shades of the past present themselves in a villianous, not to say poisonous, gallimafray...
...been the fashion from time to time for historians to fulminate against the theory that extremes generate their opposites. Yet from a pragmatic standpoint at least, this pendulum-like motion of events seems surely to hold true. It seems therefore hardly improbable that in its broadest aspects the German Republic was the direct result of the German Monarchy, moving as much toward radicalism as the empire held to the standard of conservatism...
Since the movement is in the hands of capable and same editors there is no fear that the pendulum will swing too far and crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet...