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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Week" of last term contained an unexampled number of errors, both of information and of orthography. These were caused, firstly, by a touching faith in what my fellow creatures tell me, and secondly, by the fact that, with my usual flair for matters editorial, I arrived to correct the proofs two days after the article had gone in to print. I apologize, then, to the Musical Societies of Queens' and Downing, for depriving the one of the credit of engaging Beatrice Harrison and for assigning to the other the said credit which it did not need in view...
...Adoption of a high tariff and embargo policy to correct Turkey's unfavorable trade balance. Successful retreat into economic nationalism...
...your issue of Oct. 23, p. 45, under Music and an account of Mr. Billy Hill's song entitled "The Last Round-Up," I was interested in the footnote stating that the word "dogie" means a yearling and giving its pronunciation. The pronunciation is correct but you are mistaken as to the meaning of the word. It does not signify a yearling but means any young animal that has lost its mother in the nursing period and is either reared by hand or left to shift for itself. It may be applied to a calf, a horse...
TIME USUALLY IS CORRECT...
...James, like Descartes, the founder of a new philosophical epoch--with this statement Mr. Parkes takes issue, on the ground that his philosophy "contains too obviously the seeds of its own dissolution." Statements of this kind are very difficult to analyze or to assess; it would perhaps be more correct to say that James' philosophy was a philosophy noble only with James, and that it was debauched in its transmission to men of Watson's particular stamp. Much nonsense has been traced to him, including the rugged kind of individualism and the apotheosis of the practical man. But the characteristic...