Word: modelied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seizes my copy of TIME. And this, despite a copy which awaits him at home. Has a poor man no defense against such predatory action? Can I appeal to the U. S. Government? Can I appeal to the Editors of TIME to institute an advertising campaign (a la mode Buick Motors) advocating two-TiME families? If solicited, I am sure Mr. Rossheim would be proud to be the original two-TiMER. ROBERT S. THANHAUSER...
Angling Atlas. When general management investment trusts went out of favor, fixed trusts became the financial mode. Last week for the first time was offered the spectacle of a general management trust out to acquire fixed trust shares. The angler was Atlas Corp. (formerly Atlas Utilities Corp.), most aggressive of investment trusts, run by Floyd Odium. In making an offer to exchange its own shares for fixed trust shares it sought to enlarge its stockholders' list. Also, it will acquire blocks of stocks held by the fixed trusts which it can keep or sell, thus adding to its large...
...addition to the streamers and floating balloons, the enormous room, with its rich atmosphere, will be decorated with evergreens. Dark coats and white flannels or tuxedoes are the accepted mode of dress for the first year...
Contagion. Vincent's angina is highly contagious. Kissing seems to be the commonest mode of spread. Restaurants where dishes are not thoroughly sterilized are probably the next most common distributing agents. School children are infected by public drinking fountains. Drs. C. Rex Fuller and John Charles Cottrell of Salida, Colo, were obliged to amputate an Italian miner's left index finger after another man with trench mouth had bitten the finger. More males are attacked by trench mouth than females. But females suffer more, are harder to cure. An attack does not give immunity, apparently makes one more...
Like the cart before the horse, U. S. civilization seems to trundle awkwardly ahead of civilized Americans. Critic Brooks, who hopes and works for a different mode of progress, has shown in The Ordeal of Mark Twain and The Pilgrimage of Henry James, what happened to two horses who got in front of the cart. In his biography of Emerson he shows how a most inspirational civilizer hitched his own wagon, tried to hitch the U. S. juggernaut, to a transcendental star...