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...kind of debaters that Congress has to listen to at public bill hearings seldom listen themselves to debaters on the other side. They are emotionalists. For example, a professor of history at Swarthmore) College, Dr. William I. Hull, representing the World Alliance for International Friendship and the Church Peace Union, made a long pacifist speech to the Committee. When he had finished he was asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Little Big-Navy | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...obscure and mysterious enterprises in which dogs, all over the world, engage, seldom coincide with the equally enigmatic but less obscure adventures to which men direct their attention. Yet, at each end of the earth, a bone is buried. And for this bone, with equal ardour, under a sky that is like a shallow bell of cold and darkly irridescent glass, across terraced and interminable lawns of snow, men and dogs scramble together. Last week, Richard E. Byrd, famed aviator, spoke of his proposed South Polar expedition. Said he: "I shall take three airplanes and 100 dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Love Me and the World Is Mine exhibits a bafflingly total naivete, a gay and unblushing sentimentality such as appears often in fairy tales but seldom in cinema. Agnes Thule, the youngest, hence the last, hence the ultimate Thule, falls in love with one Captain Von Vigilati, as does he with Agnes. Caught kissing, she is turned out of doors by the Thules, pere et mere. Then she goes to Vienna where she lives with a loose lady and suffers as noticeably as possible. At last, just when she is about to marry the rich man, the vigilant Vigilati puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...Seldom is a treaty stronger than its weakest clause, its joker, its exceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: With Exceptions . . . | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Although the bear and the bulldog are symbols of two of the University's opponents they have seldom been seen in the Stadium. When Brown was on the University schedule the bear was, however, and occasional spectator at the contests. The Yale bulldog has been a follower of football for many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALLIGATORS FROM FLORIDA MAY INVADE STADIUM IN 1929 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

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