Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot forbear protesting the absurd criticism of TIME which you saw fit to publish in LETTERS, Aug. 31 issue - from which circumstance it derives its only claim for consideration. Never did I see a more inane, vacuous assertion than that the editing of TIME "is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability." For it seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous...
...method of execution consisted generally of shooting the victim in the stomach and watching him die. Other well authenticated tales of his methods are not fit for publication. During the war ho had been an officer in the imperial army and was of a good family...
...advisory committee to the Government, to object to reduction of the bag limit and the length of the open season. He declared that he (Hornaday) and other members of the advisory committee were but "distinguished rubber stamps," while Burnham maneuvered the Department of Agriculture as he saw fit. "I regard Mr. Burnham's influence over Dr. E. W. Nelson and other high officers of the Biological Survey on game-shooting privileges as completely paramount. I believe that that association's influence is to blame for the fact that now the Biological Survey and the Secretary of Agriculture have...
...into the U. S. from Great Britain under the new immigration regulations. His papers showed that he had been found eligible for entrance into the U. S. when examined at Southampton, that a U. S. Public Health surgeon there had examined him on Aug. 4 and found him physically fit. In addition, he had been examined again on shipboard and finally passed. Such...
...Ludovici is convinced that sex equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...