Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understanding has entered into an editorial column of yours, re the dinner at Lowell House, and I presume to state that I disagree with the thing which did it. He has shown what appears to one new from other regions as either ignorance or poor taste. Mind, I do not charge; I do not state; I only question. What, precisely, may I ask, is "grotesquely ridiculous" about seating the tutors, the President and guests of the University, the Governor of the state, and the donor of the Houses, upon a dais? Do the students also wish to be elevated...
Reference the controversy raging in "Letters" column of TIME concerning the sacredness of a certain Marine Corps Hymn, the attached clipping may be interesting to one side or the other of the debate, or perhaps to both...
Sirs: TIME is a great magazine, but mere greatness is no warranty against error or poor judgment. Even this peaceful village of New York Mills has been stirred to excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest...
...take a full-page advertisement for 14 issues. "I argued with him because I knew I'd have to make the paper bigger. I go to school and I have plenty of work to do. ... I tried to compromise and I asked him to take only a column . . . [but he] got his way. . . . I got the money for the first week's advertisement and that is all. I personally know that good results came of the ad and that the company sold oil burners on the strength of it." Petro officials claimed Matthews acted without authority. The court...
...Wheeler School, one day last week, moppets who were drowsily planning some means of truancy had their reveries abruptly interrupted and realized. The monotonous tamping of an oil-well driller 150 ft. away suddenly ceased and Swuss-shh! high over the top of the derrick rose a column of dirty liquid, filling the air with a fine spray of oil, sand, gas. Gauged at 65,000 bbl. per day, the gusher was pronounced by oilmen the greatest high gravity producer within their recollections. As delighted as its owners were the children who swarmed out to witness the spectacle...