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TIME footnotes are appended, whenever possible, to ends of paragraphs, or at least ends of sentences, so that they can be read at natural breaks or pauses in the story, like asides in a play. The recommended procedure is to read each footnote as its asterisk, dagger or double asterisk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1933 | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

The present method of performing this difficult maneuver, although in many ways a remarkably successful compromise, is still open to criticism on several fronts; the most conspicuous of these weakness now consists in the extraordinary length of the program of instruction. The syllabus of the material covered consists of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHEMATICS A | 4/25/1933 | See Source »

The vocabulary and conversational prowess of the Classical Club has been tested to the utmost at yesterday's dinner in Leverett House where only Latin was spoken. Hardly since the banqueting days of Trimalchio has such mealtime abandonment to the Latin tongue been reported; for even the medieval monks sandwiched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENSA, MENSAE | 11/12/1931 | See Source »

MAN'S OWN SHOW: CIVILIZATION- George A. Dorsey-Harper ($5). Less than two hours after receiving the final revision of the MS of this book Author George Amos Dorsey died (TIME, April 6). Publisher Harper says Dorsey had been working intensively on Man's Own Show for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Outline | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Yesterday, the Vagabond was about to retire to some lonely spot in Somerville and cast his vote for the Grand Old Party, to which by nature and heredity he is naturally affiliated, when Professor Lake broke his nerve and his enthusiasm. In one brief digression, the dauntless archaeologist hewed the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/5/1930 | See Source »

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