Word: surprisingness
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Why is the Government resigning at this time? The despatch was silent. In March, 1923 (TIME, March 31, 1923), the last general election was held for the Narodna Skupshtina (National Assembly) and no further election is constitutionally due until 1927. But the patriarchal Premier has been experiencing much opposition both...
Mr. Roberts is a Bolshevikophobe. That is to say, he hates Bolshevism, which is not surprising. He likes the clean-cut, antibureaucratic efficiency of Fascismo. The prejudices are based not upon concrete reasoning but upon temperamental predilections. The sober, nude, crude truth is that a partisan book cannot maintain itself...
The Locked Door. The time-honored thought is again illustrated in this comedy that what is freely given is just as freely thrown away. The framework of society is represented in other familiar patterns here, but it has all been freshened up with a new lick of paint. It is...
Bishop Noli is a totally different kind of a man from Ahmed Zogu. In 1908 he founded the Albanian Orthodox Greek Church, became its Bishop. From 1902-12 he attended Harvard and learned a great deal about American life and politics. Returning to Tirana, he was able to keep an...
The most surprising merger suggested has been the acquisition of various branch roads by the formerly disrupted but now promising Missouri Pacific. Now Southern Pacific enters the lists with a proposal to acquire the El Paso & Southwestern, and hints that it will next try to obtain the Rock Island system...