Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: It is reassuring to learn that you plan to limit the size of TIME to 80 pages. As an advertiser, I am equally enthusiastic over your decision. A larger paper would mean a less intimate one and, therefore, a less valuable one from the advertising standpoint. EDWARD P. BAILEY...
...sensationally of all, to become like other Prime Ministers, to exercise only a general supervision over the State. Eagerly the Fascist hierarchy waited for a definitive statement from Il Duce. It came straight as a lightning stroke: "No one will make the unpardonable mistake of thinking my ministerial changes mean any change in the policy of my Government ! Never before have I felt so strongly all the living actuality of the Fascist doctrine by which the state is centered in one person who is complete master. Some idolaters call this a 'Dictatorship' and proudly we acknowledge it!" Evidently...
...their faculty advisers about the arrangement of their schedules. To these they should take the study cards contained in their registration envelopes, which have to be filled out and approved and handed in not later than 5 o'clock Monday. Failure to get the card in on time will mean a fine of five dollars...
...querulous shrill voice of Snowden: "I want first to repeat my belief that payment of Reparations and War Debts is financially and economically impossible without inflicting injuries on the European debtors and creditors alike.* But I told them at The Hague: 'So long as there are payments we mean to get our share!' That was my bombshell. We had to adjourn for two days to enable the other delegations to recover from the shock...
Genius. "Safe & Sane may also mean commonplace, unenterprising," said New York's Joseph Jastrow, speaking again. Few who lead significant lives are hopelessly sane. A genius is a deviate from the normal. In deviation there is hope, strength, unique value. Much of the most important work of the world has been done by men who have paid the penalty for their achievements in terms of their handicaps. Men are more susceptible to neurasthenia than women, women more prone to hysteria...