Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just read with a great deal of interest your article in TIME for May 27 under the heading "Aeronautics...
...That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
...teaching in order to make their courses hard. Fearing intelligence, because it sometimes passes examinations without working, they place emphasis on unimportant facts. The general examination of 1929 shows the disastrous effects of such a theory. There is no question longer than twenty minutes, and all these little problems deal with trivialities, such as Swift's verse, or Charles Kingsley as a poet and novelist...
...Throughout the whole narration one is struck with the romance of his life. Hart surely saw life through colored glasses and lived it as he saw it. He has retained to the present time that same feeling that makes a small boy delight in the circus, and a great deal of the charm of the volume is due to this fact...
With international financial circles still agitated over last week's agreement between Ford of Germany and the German I. G. F. Dye Trust, Continentalist Ford announced a $30,000,000 deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will...