Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only would these Subscription Bonds be bought by individuals, but they would make appropriate birthday presents, graduation presents, and wedding presents. If TIME continues to improve, they will be handed down from father to son, their value to the possessor increasing with time. In 1979 I can imagine a man of 70 saying to his grandson, "Here is a Subscription Bond for your graduation present. My father gave it to me when I graduated in 1929. The only condition is that you let me read TIME as long as I live. I hope you will keep this to hand...
...based on Mortality and Experience Tables, as the average life time - expectancy - should serve as a sound basis for a Life Subscription Rate. The Tables are averages which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...
...Elco cruiser chugged alongside a small dock in New Harbor, Block Island (R. I). A tall young man, tastefully disguised in smoked glasses and a cap, standing alone at the wheel, shouted for aid in bringing his boat alongside. Capt. Louis Rounds, relaxing nearby, gave him a hand. The tastefully disguised young man was the Honeymooning Hero. His bride hid in the cabin below. Capt. Rounds told the story two days later and newsgatherers sped east...
...Interior under Calvin Coolidge, who early espoused the Hoover cause, when it was risky to do so, and nurtured it from a shapeless hope to a reality by getting Republican delegates piece by political piece. But now, these several months, the Work desire has been thwarted. He had no hand in Cabinetmaking. In Florida, he spent listless days waiting to see the President-elect whom perhaps he thought he had made. In fact, Dr. Work's life has been unhappy almost since the Hoover nomination. Subordinates in the campaign refused to be subordinate. His resignation was demanded...
Newsman: Lots. Posed on deck, pipe in hand, front and side...