Word: marly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fremont, Neb. Mar...
...seem to get a "kick" out of the letters of criticism and praise that are sent you by your readers, I'll add my little contribution. In your account of the Lincheng bandit outrage of May 6, 1923 (TIME, Mar. 2, 1925, Page 10) there were a few inaccuracies. It was the Tientsin-Pukow express and not the "Peking-Shanghai" express that was derailed. Not nearly 300 Chinese were carried off into captivity. Nearly 30 would be nearer the truth. And the 24 foreigners captured were not all taken to their impregnable lair. All of the women captives were released...
...column 3, Page 16 of your issue of Mar. 16, I noticed that you state Missouri took third place in the intercollegiate glee club contest at Carnegie Hall recently. Such was the result announced over the radio that evening. But, according to a newspaper account subsequently published, a New York Herald-Tribune reporter, on looking over the judges' lists after the contest, found that the official announcer had made an error and that Dartmouth, not Missouri, won third place. Which is correct...
...absolute value in spite of Einstein. But one of your news items caused me to raise my eyebrows, open my mouth and give forth a faint screech. The item reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine...
Lynchburg, Va. Mar...