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...should be taught not only the laws but the most approved methods ... of finding the loopholes. . . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . . If a journalist, how-to slant, alter, lie. . . . In the securities field . . . the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Sparrow v. the Hawk | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Founder Robinson motored from Moscow to Portland, Ore., placed an order for 5,000,000 envelopes- a year's supply-and announced a new policy which will make Psychiana more like a church. Half a million letters will shortly go out to Psychiana students throughout the world informing them how-to organize study groups (resembling religious congregations) in their cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Money-Back Religion | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...newcomer to that small group of U. S. athletes for whom a stop watch is as conventional an accessory for public bathing as a pair of trunks, Flanagan last week was making what sportswriters call a "comeback'' at an age when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swimmers at Miami | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

That evening all the politicos of Europe wanted to know one thing: Where did Mr. Borah get his brand new explosive opinions? U. S. politicos were not so much at a loss. They understood that the Senator was raised with nine brothers and sisters on an Illinois farm. They knew how-to get away from it all-he studied law and fled to bad Boise in woolly Idaho. In the years since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge, they have beheld how Borah's tongue has grown golden, how he has leaned out and blossomed as Chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Show Stolen? | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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