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...degenerated sadly from the days when its name struck terror to booksellers who carried the favorite esoteric of the moment in the little safe in the back room. Its decline can be dated from the time when its inordinate 1-st for the purity of letters caused it to descend on the Dunster House Bookstore...
...polished. What if he did sell paintings from the municipal museum walls, shower the country with rubber checks, run up staggering accounts at the swankiest stores? He did these things with a regal elegance that seemed to remove the sting common to such machinations. How such a figure could descend to the tawdry level of plain grubbing seems incomprehensible...
...Roosevelt's physical infirmities only makes a bad matter worse. There is no excuse for such writing. TIME, frankly, needs some lessons in good manners. It lacks the fundamental virtue of reverence. . DAVID P. GAINES Minister First Baptist Church Waterbury, Conn. Sirs: . . . Don't let TIME descend to the stilted, prudish, uninteresting style of so many news publications. It makes the readers' picture more accurate to know whether a man struts, or gallops, or limps or hobbles. What's the difference? RALPH P. STODDARD Cleveland, Ohio Please continue your use of truthfully descriptive words about those...
...Places in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine are 800 ft. higher than they were 30,000 years ago when the Wisconsin Glacier pressed down upon New England. When the glacier melted the land sprang back to normal elevation. Another 100,000 years must pass before a similar glacier could descend upon & depress the region-Irving Bollard Crosby (Boston), Richard J. Lougee (Columbia...
...only control the pilot has over his balloon is up & down. He valves gas to descend, drops ballast to rise. His skill is measured by his judgment of weather conditions and his ability to find favoring winds with the least use of his two tools, gas and ballast. A U. S. team won the 1913 Bennett race from Paris when, instead of grounding before they reached the Atlantic as did all other balloons, they continued out to sea, knowing they would strike a wind that would carry them northeast to England. This year all gas bags carried radios to receive...