Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read a brief statement in your valuable weekly as I returned from Chicago and was surprised that one of your writers would say I was ill dressed in Berlin [TIME, March 14]. While I am not an advocate of time-wasting performances, I was as well dressed as any of the other diplomats-not in Hitler uniforms of course. Not only so; my clothes fit me as well as anybody could wish. How such a view as was expressed in your journal...
...International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard's ideal of a broad education, is much the better medicine...
...occupation of Lithuania by Polish forces, and it appeared that an "ultimatum" time limit of some sort had been attached to the Polish demands on Lithuania, although if there had been a definite limit events showed that it was later extended. Amid a world-wide eruption of ill-considered headlines it was suggested that Soviet Russia might give Lithuania armed aid against Poland, but a glance at the geographical situation showed that the Red Army could not reach Lithuania without first invading Poland or Latvia. In less than 48 hours the Lithuanian Government, through their Minister at Tallin, Estonia, handed...
...Hawes believes in "style," a quality in a dress which enables its purchaser to wear it happily for three years. Style changes about every seventh year. On the other hand, the fashion world is a dizzy merry-go-round of superficial changes which enable mass manufacturers to sell cheap, ill-fitting, flimsy garments by the million...
...Albuquerque Tribune, which arranged it, the trip was a fine journalistic stunt. For the children, although they did not know it, it was an extraordinary dose of education. All Juan Tomas' 40 schoolboys and girls (aged 5 to 13), except three who were ill, arrived sober and silent, drinking in everything with their eyes. They were marched first into a park for a picnic lunch and ice cream. Five little girls found they did not like ice cream, gave their cones away. The rest nibbled tentatively, then gulped...