Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, my purpose in writing you is to congratulate TIME and also your sister publication LIFE on printing both sides of the story. There are too many magazines (mostly American) which are afraid to publish the letters that are sent in to them condemning their policies and editorials. But not TIME...
...family with $18,000 a year may spend $2,000 to $3,000 for rent; $1,800 to $2,100 for food; $900 for a nurse; $300 to $350 for liquor; $900 for a maid; $100 for flowers; $1,500 to $2,000 for clothes; $1,800 for life insurance, savings; $1,000 to $1,200 on the man's "cash expense at business"; $300 for his wife's pocket money; $1,800 in taxes; $400 to $600 for entertainment; $1,000 to $1,500 for summer "out of town." Add: gifts, tips, Christmas, books ($50-$75), automobile...
...Under New York City are about 45,000 miles of pipes, conduits, mains and ducts for water, gas, electricity, telephone and telegraph. By concentrating on these subterranean life lines "a small crew of saboteurs could probably make New York uninhabitable within seventy-two hours...
...poor have their champions. The rich need none. The British middle classes had one in William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) and today the U. S. is offered another by Walter Boughton Pitkin, 62, Columbia University publicist who discovered seven years ago that "life begins at 40." Last year prodigious Professor Pitkin explained "why we need a rabble rouser of the right" (TIME, Sept. 19). Last week he tried rousing Elyria, Ohio and so many people (over 600) went to hear him that he called for a League of the Middle Class...
...exhibition was an altarpiece in nine panels (polyptych) from Lübeck, painted with an austere simplification of detail rare in Flemish art. Most famous of all, and best proof of "Master Hans's" ability to handle crowded, minute composition, was his series of six panels on the life of St. Ursula from Bruges' own ancient Hospital of St. John. According to legend, the artist might never have painted this challenge to the Italian rhythmists if he had not found sanctuary in the hospital as a wounded soldier during a Flemish rebellion against the Habsburg rule...