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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Better omit foreign words from TIME unless you get them correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...your issue of July 29, p. 29, in a note, you refer to the "contribution and refund" system in vogue at certain race tracks, whereby bettors get "prize" for around the the horse law by they hope (bet) "contributing" will to a win, and add: The same system is in use on tracks in Xenia, Toledo and Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...writer for two or three years has been taking your publication, the object being to get a condensed survey of the world news without bias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...means the first such Insull purchase. New England textile mills have been shutting down in numbers for the past several years. And Samuel Insull has been on hand to buy them in, not because he wanted to get into the sagging textile industry but because a textile plant in the hand is a power plant in the bush. Cotton mills are built beside waterfalls and alert Mr. Insull is a maker and seller of electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insull Textiles | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Youth and Age played together in France to try to get the Davis Cup back to the U. S. Youth was too young, Age too old. The cup stayed where it was. Experts agreed it would have stayed there even if there had been more Age and less Youth. As it was, Youth got some valuable experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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