Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Would reply to letter you printed (TIME, April 25) whereby Champion Checker-player Banks desires to write a column on his hobby for TIME. Is it feasible in such a publication as yours ? I think not, absolutely and positively do I answer in the negative. No! If you start one, there is apt to be a deluge of requests for further. What of philately-stamp collecting-of which King George V is one of the leading collectors ? . . . There are many and varied other columns that might be conducted, AND, I think, other columns which WOULD be more attractive...
...work of relief is to be wholly superintended, as it should be, by the organization of the Red Cross, there is no reason why the work of prevention should be left to the individual action of the states. Meanwhile the rest of the country can be counted on to answer, eventually, the appeals of the Red Cross; but much suffering could be avoided if the sympathies of the reading public could be diverted from the courtroom to the homeless two hundred thousand...
...public fancy, and is compelled to sit ignored and unmolested while the balls strike right and left around help. Picture also the situation of her who attracts the admiration of a star pitcher, and must spend her days and nights in sliding down and climbing up again in answer to his call...
...those proponents of the higher criticism some sort of answer can be given, verging, indeed, upon that oddity of entities, truth. These weary, worried participants in the Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired...
Labor? This question was asked particularly by citizens of Windsor, Ontario, Canadian border city, suburb of Detroit. To them the answer to the question looked like an unpleasant affirmative...