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TIME is all right. It gives all the important news of the world in a compact form. With it a busy man can keep abreast of the times. What I especially like about the policy of TIME is that when it makes an erroneous statement and a correspondent calls attention to it, TIME comes out like a man and admits its mistake...
...King, in the uniform of a Field Marshal, followed the bier, accompanied by the Prince of Wales in the uniform of the Welsh Guards. Immediately behind them, in line abreast, walked the Kings of Denmark, Norway, Belgium...
Twenty to thirty abreast, white robed unmasked (to conform to a local ordinance), with white peaked hats, white cords around their waists, arms folded, the marchers followed rank on rank. Here and there was color-an imperial robe of crimson or scarlet or green. Everywhere floated American flags. The entire District of Columbia contingent (of about 100) carried each a large flag, gift from the Texas Klans. Other banners showed a masked horseman, a little red schoolhouse, the legend "Non Silbla sed Anthar (Klansmen smirk when asked to translate this; it is not Latin), and the legend...
...universities in politics in the May Century Magazine, "is the training of a race of unofficial statesmen." While the knowledge of state government and its functions resides in the universities, the power to rule remains in the hands of practical politicians. Mr. Frank proposes "to drive knowledge and power abreast" by bringing learning into closer touch with the current of public life...
...news is fit to print if treated in the proper spirit. Now here, the sociological import was considerable, really; intensely interesting to scientific students of these matters. . . ." ¶(Papers of The New York Herald-Tribune stamp): "Well, the conservative, law-abiding, well-to-do citizen wants to be kept abreast of the justice of the land. They discuss these cases down at the Stock Exchange, at lunch. Anyway, all the other papers...