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...Venzke, University of Pennsylvania sophomore and crack miler, for the third successive time: the "K. of C." mile, and permanent possession of the Mayor Curley Trophy: at Boston. The race ended farcically because a dreamy official sounded the "last lap" bell one lap too soon, throwing the runners into utter confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew more formal, great numbers of text books were written from the lectures, and teachers of younger grades were expected to teach by expounding them. The utter futility of this as an educational method has begun to dawn on the whole academic world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rexford Tugwell, Brain Trust Head, Declares Teaching by Lectures Futile | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Comrade Litvinoff landed at Naples with a shout: "Here we are! The trip from America was grand!" On the train to Rome he flipped through the Papal daily Osservatore Romano which headlined CANNIBALISM IN RUSSIA and asserted the Russian people's "disillusionment and utter disinclination to work under the Communist regime." In Rome the roly-poly Red was received in private audience by His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III and held a series of conferences with Premier Mussolini at which they secretly discussed disarmament and the Japanese trade menace before Comrade Litvinoff entrained for Moscowr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Western World v. Japan | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...Utter Annihilation." Three smart sisters and their great brother comprise today the Dynasty of Soong. Their father, the late, pious and ingenious Charles Jones ("Charlie") Soong, made money by printing in China millions of Bibles for the missionary trade. He helped to make history by harboring in his house and backing with his money the Great Rebel. Dr. Sun Yatsen, later First President of the Chinese Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

Either clean up the bogus Fukien Government or the Nanking Government promises you utter annihilation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: CHINA Generalissimo's Last Straw | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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