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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appreciated indeed by the Amerika Esperantistaro (Aro: suffix meaning group of) was your article in the Aug. 15 issue of TIME. Such a sympathetic and accurate account of the origin and progress of Esperanto and its aims is a welcome change from the usually cynical, often hostile, stories and articles in the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Instead of this new business being designed to catch an occasional bit of expense account chiseling by an individual salesman, it is designed to benefit thousands of honest salesmen, many of whom have already found it much more convenient to ride in a comfortable air-conditioned train to the city in which they are to make their calls and there find an excellently conditioned car for their convenience, rather than bucking pounding traffic over long city to city jumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...awkward as a young colt: a nostalgic account of how everything turns out all right for virtually everyone in a little New England town in the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...various investigators but not yet certainly confirmed. The existence of elements heavier than uranium is theoretically possible. In fact, such heavy elements of higher numbers than 92 are supposed to exist in vast quantities in the interiors of stars; and chemical theorists have calculated that those elements must account for 98% of the total matter in the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ekarhenium | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's Saint | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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