Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S new Letters Department differed from all previous letter columns: 1) no irrelevant personal pleadings were countenanced, 2) but no admissible and generally interesting point was left unanswered by the editors. TIME considered (and considers) its Letters Department its department of public relations, ready to right wrongs done its readers or itself, to deal with blame and praise alike...
...consecutive six-year term allowed him by the Argentine Constitution. Not so surprised were politicos when Justo hand-picked his successor, Dr. Roberto M. Ortiz, his Finance Minister. In Argentine politics the Government nominee usually wins. When the votes were counted five months ago Justo's man had done even better. He had rolled up the largest popular vote in the country's history...
Shortly after the turn of the century, the Meteor Crater area was staked out as a mining claim by an engineer named Daniel Moreau Barringer. He and his sons, who inherited the claim when he died, have done some drilling themselves and have leased the claim at times to various other groups, but all attempts to exploit the crater's treasure have failed. Mr. Barringer first drilled in the centre, believing that because the crater was round the body must have fallen vertically. When he performed the highly ingenious experiment of firing bullets and shotgun charges into clay, however...
Most visitors were merely tired by this exhibition. It was overcrowded, and the same sort of thing had been done before and better by the Europeans who originated it. A few temperate and tolerably fresh efforts were, nevertheless, visible. One was an Indian Concretion (see cut) by tall, silent, Socialite George L. K. Morris, whose inspiration for this pattern of rose, purple, black, green and orange forms came from objects in the Museum of the American Indian. Thoughtful critics believe that simple designs of this character hold the most promise for abstract art in the U. S. To the artist...
What is to be done? Well, there are many elements in the recovery program but all are directed toward a better balance of prices. The Farm Act, the Housing Act and expanding relief ought to help...