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When the House met again the Opposition interpellated the Government on the attempted train wreck and charged it with complicity. The Premier refused to make a statement. The air then became thick with imprecations, shaking fists and water bottles. The Speaker was forced to adjourn the session. During the recess the Premier induced the Prince Regent to dissolve the Diet and so forestalled a vote of no confidence in the Government. Elections are to be held, but, meanwhile, the dissolution has created a "tense political atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Soshi | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

Coach Shaw and his Freshman crew took a short paddle on the river yesterday afternoon, establishing a record for mid-winter rowing. Last year at this time the Charles was thick with skaters and hockey enthusiasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROWING REPLACES SKATING AS MILD SPELL CONTINUES | 1/18/1924 | See Source »

Professor Oliver Farrington, also of the Field Museum, found fossilized bones of a fantastic toadlike creature, probably the extinct megatherium, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The animal when alive weighed 500 pounds, was twelve feet long and two feet wide, squatted on short thick hind legs and had long, sharp teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossils, Bones | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...days later a million people were said to have assembled in the streets of London to await the outcome of the elections. Elaborate preparations were made to give the results, which were expected at 9:45 p. m. Exactly at 9:30 a thick blanket of London fog settled down and obscured everything.; Theatres, cinemas and "loud speakers". (English for amplifiers) gave out the final results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloomy Britain | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

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