Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...district correspondent for seven years from Toronto to Vancouver, I sent off an account of their stop at Field near the crest of the Rockies. They had motored from Banff to Lake Louise, to Field, where their train awaited them, over one of the most spectacular drives in the world...
Being a very ardent reader of TIME for some years, I thought it only my duty to write and let you know just how it helped me out recently. While hitchhiking from Toronto to a small town near Callandar, the home of the Quints, I was having very good success, but TIME magazine was my saviour. 1 seems this man driving a new car passed me near a town and when I walked through it I noticed him starting up again, this time he didn't pass me by, but stopped himself without me raising my hand...
...piano and tinkling was part of gentle breeding; second peak (343,000) in 1923, when 55% of sales were player pianos. When the industry created a taste for mechanical music, it bred the germ of its own decline. Player-piano addicts soon shifted to radios. Seven lean years and near-death followed. But meantime, radio, once the piano's ruin, gradually wakened a new public love of music. Today, piano makers are enjoying a third peak: and 5,865,000 U. S. families own pianos...
...Near the Mencken tone of Hecht's early satire is the hilarious miracle which occurs when God liquidates radio broadcasting. He merely turns loose Heavenly static, and radio becomes a nightmare...
...joyously happy. The rebirth of nature's earth has been his rebirth too. Cupid, Puck, and Duty have fought for his attention, and he has reveled in their very battling. Once, so long ago, when he was a mewling prepster. June meant the end of another school year was near. It meant only that summer--an idyllic period of freedom and fun--approached. It meant a return to those hazy blue mountains which Vag loves...