Word: informals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of June 18, under the caption Medicine you say "the irregular medical schools such as chiropractic, naturopathy, optometry (and others) are falling before the onslaught of legal medicine and legislation." Be fair TIME. Your correspondent neglected to inform you that in 1905 there were 153 medical schools in the U. S., while at present there are only 69 such schools. All professions have increased their requirements and the schools which could not meet the demand either had to consolidate with a stronger institution or else "pass out of the picture." During these years optometry has been building-true...
...nations which were published in book form as the "Questing Cook" and I would like very much to know where I can buy copies of that book. A book of that type would be very valuable to me in all my hotels and if you would only inform me as to where I can purchase same I will appreciate...
...have the honor to inform you that on this day your mine has been reduced to ashes. . . . The losses which you have sustained in the aforementioned mine you may collect from the Government of the United States and Mr. Calvin Coolidge, who is truly responsible for the horrible and disastrous situation through which Nicaragua is passing at present...
...requires much time for your magazine to reach this isolated corner of Morocco, hence it is but at this late date that I can inform you of a slight error in your number for February 27 which reached me but yesterday...
...above mentioned issue on page 13 in an article entitled "Bombs," you mention a supposed bombardment of a market of several rebel villages in the Riff. Permit me to inform you that your correspondent was . . . misinformed. There are none and have been no rebellious tribes in the Riff since the spring of 1927 when . . . the last of the partisans of Aid el Krim [were] subdued and brought under French control. . . . Since then the Riff has been absolutely peaceful, on the French side of the divide at least...