Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more militantly American than our 2,100 subscribers scattered through Alaska's 586,400 square miles. They get the U.S. edition of TIME by air express, so that most of them are reading their weekly copies at the same time as U.S. readers. In this week's mail one of them wrote as follows...
Another, Ernest Krinby, of Aniak, an old sourdough, admits that times have changed. He recalls that 20 years ago there were two mail deliveries a year by dog team, and that on those occasions you would "lock the door and read for a week." Now the mail plane arrives every day, weather permitting. Says he: "Civilization is creeping up on us. And," he adds, contrary to all literary expectations, "we are glad...
...Mail copies of the issue containing "Academic Freedom" can be ordered for ten cents from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. at the CRIMSON Building...
...Return Mail. The Edgar Guest of Victorian England, Tupper could produce verse for any occasion, and with facility that was the wonder of his time. He was tipped out of a carriage once, and promptly turned out a verse on the moral lessons to be learned in carriage accidents ("0 trials and troubles and losses in life!/ What are ye but simples to strengthen my soul?"). Asked to compose an eclogue to be recited by the Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers...
...more than compose. The other jobs make composing more interesting." His aim is to write music for the present which is typical of America. He is proud that high school choirs all over the country frequently perform his "Peaceable Kingdom," "Tarantella," and "Testament of Freedom." He particularly enjoys the mail from people who like his music, saying he is more pleased by a letter of appreciation from an out-of-the-way place than by a glowing newspaper write...