Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscribers from the lists over which we have control, this is not always possible?a different address, similarity in names and other seemingly trivial difficulties make a 100% check impossible. If you, as a subscriber, receive one of our letters soliciting a subscription, we should consider it a high compliment to TIME if you would give our announcement and subscription card to a friend who you think ought to be interested. We will gladly send our announcements to any friends whose names and addresses you care to send...
...subject of Church union. He began by rejecting overtures from the Episcopalians. Episcopalian bishops will not admit the validity of Congregational consecration or ordination of ministers, but they offer to reordain them if a merger can thereby be effected. Said Dr. Barton: "I would consider it equally a compliment if it were suggested to me that my children would appear to him [i.e., an Episcopalian bishop] more nearly legitimate if I would consent at this time to a supplemental marriage at the hands of a justice of the peace. . . . Any movement for reunion which is to include the Congregational Church...
...real upset occurred yesterday when Roots forced Bondi the second seeded player to 22 games before the latter won the set 12-10, and when Roots then returned the compliment by taking the second set 6-4. Only two sets were played, however, on account of darkness. This afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Jarvis Courts, Bondi may lose or maintain his reputation in the final set while Roots may gain...
...Many people have been quoted to the effect that Boston is the American home of correct English. But when the former editor of the London Daily Chronicle states that America as a whole is the stronghold of the English tongue and should therefore initiate measures for its preservation, the compliment elicits only an expression of blank dismay...
...Turkey does not. Moreover Turkey has excluded American teachers from its own schools, whereas Poland has engaged Miss Martha Mazurowski, principal of public school No. 13 in Buffalo, N. Y., to aid in remodeling its entire educational structure. Poland's engagement of Miss Mazurowski may be a delicate compliment to the excellence of American education. Or it may be a generous recognition of the successful administration of an American school by a Pole. But in either case Poland is to be credited with the best of intentions. It is not the least significant feature of the American public school...