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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Nov. 10 on p. 19 you put New Mexico's red-headed senator and Democratic idol, Sam G. Bratton, among the list of re-elected Republican Senators. Please correct this before the entire Democracy of the Sunshine State begins firing criticisms at you. Although usually correct, your publication is far from right in this instance. Senator Bratton has been the recognized leader of the Democratic party in New Mexico for six years...
...lovely girl disappears. A blood-spattered love-nest is discovered. Her fearfully hacked body is found buried in the bushes. How Thatcher Colt came to the correct but astounding solution may have staggered his district attorney but will not seem unduly out-of-the-way to hardened detective-story readers...
...writer is asking that TIME do the Pittsburgh Courier the justice of publishing its correct circulation, because for years we have had our circulation audited every year and it is not necessary for anyone to guess at our circulation. We are enclosing you herewith a photostat copy of our last audit, and we are asking that you do us the favor to correct our circulation inasmuch as the figures given by you (TIME, Oct. 27), if seen by our advertisers, will subject us to rebate...
...fireworks and burnings-in-effigy as eagerly as U. S. tots yearn for July 4. English lexicographers know that to "do a guy" is to "do a bunk" or "decamp." As a noun "guy" means in England any sort of effigy or grotesque figure. The following example of correct usage of this noun is classic...
While winter rowing does not serve to keep oarsmen in the pink of condition, it nevertheless affords the coach an opportunity to criticize and correct individual flaws in oarsmanship which would otherwise go unnoticed. "I want as many candidates for crews as possible." said Coach Whiteside. "Inexperienced Freshmen, in particular, should come out. Often a man who has never rowed before will show his ability during winter rowing; there has always been at least one man on the University eight each year who, when he came to Harvard, had never rowed before. Freshmen should come out, whether they have experience...