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Ashes of a prophet so dishonred in his own country that he spent many a year in prison, were last week the object of celebrations in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Honored Ashes | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...prophet was Charles E. Ruthenberg. Communism was his prophecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Honored Ashes | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...will spend over 15 minutes on Miller," said U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner to the jury last week as he summed up the conspiracy charges against two members of the Harding Administration. Mr. Buckner, who is going to retire from office in two months, was no mean prophet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: One Blind, One Coated | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...theory seems to fit nicely with the general tendencies not only of history in its narrow sense, but of human activity as a whole. Even the ancient China of 500 B.C. had a romantic rebound from classicism with a feeling kindred to that of the contemporary West, and its prophet in Chuang-Tzn, the spiritual twin of Rousseau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/25/1927 | See Source »

...Class Prophet" wrote that she would "become the great medical expert of China, and found the Chung Polyclinic. . . ." She herself confided to the class book as follows: "Highest ambition; to be my father's secretary; favorite expression : China; hobby: getting letters; favorite occupation: reading newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wise Wives | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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