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...word in defense of "and/or" (TIME, Dec. 23)? This highly convenient phrase simply means "either one or the other or both." It makes it possible to say in one sentence what would otherwise require two or three. 1 fail to see why the expression of the conjunctive and disjunctive in one short phrase should cause so much trouble...
Sirs: If you continue to ignore the decisions of the courts in the State of Illinois, I am going to cancel my subscription. In TIME, Dec. 23 you have an interesting article on the use of the phrase "and/or," and credit the criticism of this expression to one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. Your files will show that two years ago I wrote you a letter calling your attention to the use of this abomination in one of your editorials on medicine, and I told you then that this phrase had been held to be "against...
Sirs: Allow me to reply to L. de Vallombrosa & Evelyne Greig (TIME'S Letters, Dec. 16). I am a French Republican & that means, for the Republic. My politics are those of Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Clemenceau, Poincaire & Doumergue. As a Republican I denounce your Croix de Feu & all other parties of the Right. France has soldiers, mobile guards&policemen & needs no other private armies. I denounce equally the Communists whose ideal Russia, outdoes Capitalism. And I scorn such men as Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies...
...marks and specifications of Nazi ideology. Harvard University had the courage to refuse a scholarship offered by a Nazi propagandist. Can Yale administer this fund on these terms without upholding an ideal which is counter to Yale's own "best ideals and traditions?" --The American Jewish World. Dec...
...like to see the idea tried out in some form here at the University. We pass it along as something for the college heads to think about when they meet again to plan the various curricula. -Ohio State, Dec...