Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Permit me very courteously to observe that Campobello Island is not at the head of the Bay of Fundy as declared in TIME of Aug. 31, Page 17. It is at the mouth...
...TIME News-Magazine Peoria, Ill. Aug. 28, 1925 Sirs...
TIME is ever welcome and almost an unalloyed delight, and altogether indispensible. But it would seem if your magazine is to inform the busy man, then the use of simple current English, so far as possible, should be the constant rule. I come across in the issue of Aug. 24, Page 18, Column 2 a very strange word-"bathysophical". What meaning that can convey to those who have little Latin and less Greek I should not venture to say. Search in the dictionaries and Concise Oxford, Webster Century is in vain. The contex would give to one knowing its Greek...
...your issue of Aug. 31, Page 16, under the heading EDUCATION - subheading "Three Cantabs," there are two errors which probably would be passed without comment and absorbed by an unsuspecting public...
Helen Hamilton Gardener, an author and the only female member of the U. S. Civil Service Commission, recently died (TIME, Aug. 17). Among other things which she left in her will was her brain, bequeathed to the Cornell Brain Association to prove her life-long contention that the brain of a woman is not inherently inferior to that...