Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention telephone service a la Scandanavia without pert remarks about ours [TIME, July 4] ? "Thank You" makes possible faster service Calls are no less accurately completed, as one hears the operator give the number to the called exchange. Opportunity for correction is there given. "Thank You" saves telephone users in the aggregate, thousands of hours annually. We Americans value highly our "Time". In your remarks about hand telephones, do you infer backwardness in telephone development here? You forget that your Cleveland operator can get you London in a jiffy. You can not talk that far from a Swedish telephone...
Churchmen reading their home newspapers last week caught the headline "Ablest Preachers" propounded by Church Business; scanned the appended list of twelve names for mention of themselves or of able friends...
Sirs: I like TIME very much. I was very much amused in a statement that you made in TIME several months ago, which was: "Virginia's chief industries are female academies." I take it for granted that you have never been to Va. or heard mention of that state. Please visit us or look it up and correct your statement in an early issue of TIME. If you do, we will excuse you this time...
...evident that one should view with alarm TIME's selection of cuts for its magazine or its news items. And yet when I glanced over TIME, June 27, and found the cut of Slacker Bergdoll on p. 8 and an item concerning him in the same columns as mention such courageous men as Byrd, Lindbergh, Chamberlin and others under the division of National News it would seem that some of the criticisms of TIME have been justified. This is a direct affront to our "Heroes of the Air." The mention of this ill-famed slacker is bad enough...
Welcome. "Welcomed to Denver by whooping cowboys firing six-guns in salvos, by knife-wielding 'Injuns,' by rough and tumble cops, clanging police patrols and screaming fire wagons, not to mention dang sweet-looking cowgirls in fo' gallon hats and white riding breeches, the delegates to Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen...