Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purity. "The bedroom farce and the sex novel do not exist in Russia. . . . There is a refreshing freedom from sex consciousness. . . . Men and women go swimming in the same lake or river, without bathing suits. . . ." Thus Miss Thompson plumbs the purity of Russian minds...
...members are "hazed" and "razzed" cruelly. Favorite tortures are to sell them stocks which do not exist, deliver them bogus orders from telephone booths, induce them to smoke ($15 fine...
...such creatures indeed exist, they are certainly mere "women" and should have no place in a magazine for the home, school and family, such as TIME. "Brazen" is the good old fashioned adjective which I would unhesitatingly apply to the picture of the "Dolly" or Deutsch sisters with which you illustrate the story to which I object. No doubt you are right that they seem "worth while" to old King Christian of Denmark, but why give such "women" any place in TIME...
...Nevertheless, that is no reason why our descendants should not exist. Perhaps the earth will be unable to support quite so many people as now, perhaps fewer will want to live on it. Mankind, three million times as old, may be three million times as wise...
...size, then, is the placing of false emphasis on extra-curricular activities in order to obtain social honors. By the present system, the successful become enslaved by their jobs and the rest have no chance to contribute to the life of the College, a condition which did not exist when Yale was smaller...