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...Secret sect which claims to understand the mysteries of Nature; founded in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Oklahoma | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body and that only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31) did not fully crystallize until last week. Then, at a Cabinet meeting, Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha voiced the real dissatisfaction of Turks at the action of the U. S. Senate. The U. S., said Dictator Kemal, in substance, does not understand that the "Terrible Turk" of Ottoman days is extinct. . . . The Young Turks of today are trying harder and with more success than any other backward people to catch up with the march of civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Youth Going West | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...many understand," the captain ended, "we do not allow the students to take out horses alone, until we are sure that there is a reasonable chance that the two will not return individually after the ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Holds Bit in Front of Horse's Mouth for Five Minutes But Dobbin Doesn't Bite--Equestrians Saved by Horses' Ears | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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