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...voters to polls through England's election soup was the frantic problem of candidates. Ding-donging down the city streets and even country lanes party workers cried, "Follow the bell!" Hastily posted paper arrows on sidewalks pointed pollwards. But fog effects could not be defeated. Voting was the slowest in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Election in the Soup | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...influx from the Far East has increased from 2,449 to 3,190 and this comprises the slowest increase from any district of the world. Near East visitors have been augmented from 443 to 714 during the decade, while the Latin-American countries are the only ones to show a falling off. These numbers have diminished from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOREIGN STUDENTS IN U. S. HAVE DOUBLED IN NUMBER | 6/7/1930 | See Source »

...slowest de luxe liners on the trans-Atlantic run are big, broad boats sailed by big, broad Dutchmen. Into Manhattan last week hove the S. S. Rotterdam, fresh from a $1,000,000 overhaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Wett, a Little | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Lately U. S. Indian agents, weary with much swamp-chasing, returned to Washington, reported only the slowest progress in their century-old attempt to corral the Seminoles. Asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur: "How long have these Indians been taking care of themselves?" "As long as we have known anything about them," was the reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Leave Them Alone | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Iraq, one of the earliest centers of civilization, is now attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. G. LYON TELLS STORY OF EXCAVATIONS OF AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN NUZI, IRAQ | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

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