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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is beyond all doubt the correct name for the only newsmagazine in these United States. I nearly fell off my comfortable and well balanced chair (and the whole phrase is meant literally) when I opened up the Nov. 12 issue of TIME this afternoon and found the complete election results, covered in your usual highly interesting style. That was an example of real speed on your part?speed I had not thought probable. TIME certainly makes full use of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Japanese Ears | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...inconvenient walking distance from the Bowl, the prospective passengers are concealed by the bustle of more picturesque travellers. Dull indeed are the ears that have not registered the consternation attendant on the phrase "he isn't sure he can get the car". In fact the less conscientious eavesdropper has found that genuine football pilgrims are characterized by an almost universal lack of assurance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLOWING THE BALL | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...presently existing marriage to sustain an action for divorce in this court. 2. The pendency of the suit for divorce brought by the libellant against the respondent in 1925 does not bar this action. 3. The proper interpretation of the divorce statute of this jurisdiction of the facts found by the Mater's Report demand that the libellant be granted a divorce on the ground of desertion. 4. The respondent is not entitled to the divorce which she seeks in her cross-libel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

Undergraduate ushers for the affair have not been named, but it is expected that several of those who served last week will be on hand today. It has been found difficult to obtain ushers for this tea, as a great majority of the eligible men are leaving early for New Haven. However, it will not be so necessary to have as large a force this week since not as many guests are expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND OF UNIVERSITY TEAS TO BE HELD TODAY | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...insane and therefore a sacred oracle, Blettsworthy eagerly assumed the role which preserved him from the dinner-pot. It was an easy part, for everything he said sounded mad enough, concerning as it did another, and therefore impossible world. The elder, interpreting these mad oracular utterances as convenient, found his Sacred Lunatic a useful alternative for the tribal totems, miniature sloths, to whose whispered advices all unpopular policies were attributed. These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they did not reproduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Lunatic | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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