Word: desks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would then have a cover of real drawing power and high patriotic appeal. The thousands of school children who read TIME could not help but find this a great inspiration. Imagine a schoolroom bright with our flag, and a red, white and blue TIME on every pupil's desk...
Unfortunately your wordy eulogy of the magazine TIME and a copy of the magazine itself appeared together on my desk this morning. I say unfortunately because I read your circular letter first and then opened up to your NATIONAL AFFAIRS section, hoping to see there a brief summary of the more important events of the week, as you say yourself it contains. I learned from it that Mrs. Coolidge likes circuses and graduated from college in '02, and that Governor Smith uses 25% more words expressing his appreciation of the Boy Scouts than does Mr. Coolidge. Not being...
...headmaster, religious guide, crew coach, pater familias. He is an Episcopalian and so are most of his boys, but he does not proselyte. If the school has a sanctum, it is Father Sill's study with low, slanting roof, often-disturbed shelves of books, a littered desk and several leather chairs. The conversations of this room are the unwritten and authentic chronicle of Kent. Many-times-famed have been the crews of Kent...
This letter is to compliment you upon a very good subscription letter that came to my desk recently...
Judge Elbert Henry Gary, 81, at the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan, related: "A few weeks ago practicing a very foolish thing that I have been accustomed to, I put my feet up on my desk-at a directors' meeting too, while I was thinking-my chair tipped over too far and, of course, I struck the arm of the chair in the very worst place-in the small of the back. Since that time I have not been quite up to par and my nerves were to some extent shocked I think. This morning...