Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your sister publication, LIFE, continually poke fun at us poor "semi-educated people" who are doing the best we can toward "self-improvement...
...qualify as scholars, but we can be interested and benefited. Personally, I think "popularizers" such as Will Durant, H. G. Wells, TIME and LIFE are justified...
Your review of Will Durant's The Life of Greece smacks of pedantry...
...Chrysler. "A new attempt to control production," cried Mr. Keller. Roland Thomas hastily announced that the demand had been withdrawn. Far from satisfied, Chrysler's Weckler demanded a guarantee (presumably from John Lewis) that no such demand by any C.I.O. union should again be made during the life of the new contract. "Just so long as the corporation continues to drag extraneous issues into the situation," replied Mr. Thomas with a straight face, "so long will the corporation have to bear the responsibility for failure ... to resume operations...
...Life with Father was life at the White House for the children of Theodore Roosevelt. They crawled through the space between ceiling and floors, dragged their spotted pony into the elevator, whooped on roller skates down the historic hallways, walked on stilts up the circling stairways, with Father egging them on, often whooping it up ahead of them. Less like his father than the other children, but his father's favorite, Kermit followed in Father's boisterous wake, but liked to take books out of the Library of Congress and read while Archie and Ted played, argued with...