Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reluctant to write a "Dear Editor" letter, to those who constantly write them, this cartoon by Webster seemed pat! In case you have not seen it (though as it is copied* from the New York World the chances are you have)-it seemed to me to fit so many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN DINGLEY LEETCH...
More than two years ago, three doctors of the Harvard Medical School did a weird deed which they saw fit to keep secret until last week. Two female English bulldog litter mates were received in the Harvard laboratory. They were observed and found to grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy...
...said it: that calisthenics (his profession) is a commercial exploitation of people's desires to keep fit; that people should better walk far at 4 m.p.h., play tennis and golf, swim, ride horseback, tramp, hike; that for "physical illiterates" setting up exercises are good; that his getting up exercises were better...
...California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...
...present-day New York Times is his creation. People mocked his motto, "All the news that's fit to print." They scoffed at his plan to cover fully phases of the news that had never been so covered before, such as Wall Street, real estate, books, routine governmental matters of the city, state and nation. At his refusal to accept the trend toward sensationalism, muckraking, funnies and "yellow" headlines, his contemporaries and competitors snorted...