Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read OVER YOUR SHOULDER!" Page 4 is a set of false whiskers, page 5 a peepshow. Other features: a two-way editorial ("Can this go on? Sure! No!"), a page of letters to readers ("instead of printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have to do is take a seat opposite a pretty girl and hold the magazine so that she can see this...
Richard Halliburton fulfilled himself in many ways and made it pay. He batted about Europe and the Orient, toured Tibet, climbed Fujiyama in midwinter. He mounted Olympus, swam the Hellespont, followed the trail of Ulysses from Ithaca back to Ithaca. Women's clubs began to clamor for him to address them and in 1925 he published his first book, The Royal Road to Romance...
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when...
...count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around after pop has had his ears pinned back, seem resigned to living happily with him ever after...
Perhaps, in their search for an apt historical comparison, the editors of "Time" should have turned back a few more centuries to the story of the Trojan Horse. Very truly yours Marshall H. Stone, Professor of Mathematics...