Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase of mine, not so long as I catch it like I do this week. Gracious sakes alive oh me oh my! What a sweet lot of old ladies you must think your readers are, to publish in your SPORT department this description of bowling on the green! [TIME, Aug. 29.] Bowling on the green !! Who called that a sport anyhow ? It sounds like old ladies' stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then you have to insult all the decent men who, like myself, think real bowling...
...take so few as 67 strokes, as did Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. in the national amateur qualifying round last week, his strokes would come at an average of less than three minutes apart. - ED. in a letter signed by L. A. Merillat- which appeared in your issue of Aug. 15. In this letter the writer states "there are fewer horses in cities than formerly but more in the United States than in 1900. The exact number given by a recent report of the department of agriculture is 17,000,000 and 5,000,000 mules, or about...
...should ask me, I'd say the Follies type [TIME, Aug. 29] compared to other types of show girls is about the same as a show horse compared to a race horse. All a show horse does is stand around and get looked at. A race horse can do something. I've seen them all and I know. Once they get in the Follies you know they'll never be anything but glorified dumbbells. . . . Give me a girl that works for her living, every time, instead of one that works somebody by just being dead from...
Unity. A comprehensive topic of the whole conference was discussed in plenary session "The Unity of Christendom." The Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, himself the organizer of a Universal Conference on Life & Work (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925, et seq.) paralleling Bishop Brent's assembly on Faith & Order, reiterated the idea that all sects should be able to regard themselves and each other as chapters of a single Church...
...Millions now living will never die" is the hope of International Bible Students (TIME, Aug...