Word: dec
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Dec. 2 under the caption "Education" you comment on Dr. William G. Thayer's retirement as Headmaster of St. Mark's School. TIME'S lack of space undoubtedly prevented the correspondent from writing many complimentary things about Dr. Thayer, of his influence on the many hundred boys who have been placed under his care for six years and in what high regard and affection he is held by all graduates, but irrespective of the lack of space, no mention of St. Mark's School or Dr. Thayer is complete without mention...
...that TIME, always timely, was not aware of a collection of amusing little verses now being widely circulated under the title Mother Goose Censored? It seems to me that you might have made use of it in your article "Goose Dispute," in the Dec. 9 issue. The editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped...
...with a high degree of satisfaction that I, with many another Stanfordite, read of Secretary-President Wilbur's work in TIME, Dec. 9. Can one statement in particular, ". . . bring to his job an attitude of mind different from the general run of office holders," be considered as TIME'S apology for calling Secretary Wilbur President Hoover's "prime 'yes' man" (TIME, March...
...Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that...
Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis gave the U. S. a big 5? worth last week. The Dec. 7 issue of his weekly magazine was advertised as "the greatest Saturday Evening Post in history." It was also the biggest issue of any magazine ever printed...