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Who said: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"? Who said: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Boy | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

"Oh, the agony of patience," he writes. "At the thousandth bate in a day, on an arm that ached to the bone . . . merely to twitch him gently back to the glove . . . to reassure him with tranquillity, when one yearned ... to pound, pash, dismember!" After three days and three nights, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Against Hawk | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Author Pierre Stephen Robert Payne started something in 1919 that he can't stop. He was only seven that year, but he had an attack of writer's itch, and with the same zest another boy his age might have used to dismember a grasshopper, Payne wrote The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torrents of Ink | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...eleven months of 1950, thanks partly to better business for all airlines, National chalked up more than $2,000,000 profit (v. a loss of $20,000 the year before), was $381,487 in the black even before mail pay. Last week Baker got his reward: CAB dropped its dismemberment proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: A Lively Corpse | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

Despite its size, the Du Pont chain of command which Tom Clark wanted to dismember was simple. The Du Pont family controls the Christiana Securities Co. (TIME, Feb. 21), a holding company in which anyone can buy stock (current bid price: $3,050 a share). Christiana Securities Co., plus other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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