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Thoroughly discredited is the oldtime notion that fine works of art are the rightful property of an elite. But in the U. S. a good contemporary painting would still cost the average citizen half a year's income. A good painting by any one of the famous dead is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home Museums | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Whenever, in Queen Victoria's day. a recalcitrant Maharaja showed himself as "blind," "unrepentant" and "desperate", as Chiang Kai-shek is now (to use Mr. Hirota's adjectives), British subjects had to discharge their duty by recognizing some other Indian as his rightful successor, and Mr. Hirota indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Victorians | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

In the home youth is led, through the ideas of his parents, to regard society as static and immovable. College exposes him to more liberal thought; but at the same time his teachers, failing to realize that in him is the power to interpret for society by sheer inspiration the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANTA CLAUS TO LIVE | 12/17/1937 | See Source »

The history of schools for the teaching of teachers is not a pleasant one, for universities, the rightful guardians of the fortunes of education, had been bitterly prejudiced against their development.

Author: By Elisworth S. Grant, | Title: Horace Mann Centennial Recalls Fight For Graduate Educational School Here | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

A precept which black, benign Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist, enjoins upon his followers is that all stolen goods should be returned to their rightful owners, all old debts be paid to creditors. Since Father Divine attained a following many a U. S. merchant, especially in the South, has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Sezar | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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