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Word: maye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer has no knowledge of what the sentiments of others may be, but he is now requesting that you discontinue the paper with the approaching expiration of his subscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...original subscribers to TIME?the inimitable. As such, I am especially interested in your aeronautical columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE refers to a great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to state that Congress was a meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...always these public services have been rendered with a private distinction which has marked "Evergreen" hospitality. There, a dinner menu elaborately inscribed on a gold-bordered card is set in a little gold holder before each guest, that he may gauge his appetite. And, dinner done, guests may wander through a library where tier on tier of precious old books are the envy of every bibliophile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: To Rome | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...jovial gravediggers in Hamlet dug well while they cracked their elaborate jokes. However sad the friends of the sad Ophelia, they knew that she was at least safely, deeply buried. But if facetious gravediggers dig well, serious gravediggers may dig poorly, or indeed not at all. Such was the case in Manhattan last week when more than 300 serious gravediggers went on strike at Calvary, great Catholic cemetery. Due to the gravediggers' seriousness, hundreds of Catholic families feared lest their dead would be improperly, amateurishly buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cemetery Strike | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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