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...unilateral decision to expand. Giles was right, but his moral position was a little weak: the National League, after all, did not bother to consult American League owners before moving into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta. That still did not make the motives of Finley & friends any nobler or any less obvious. Moving the A's to Oakland will cut into the Bay Area monopoly enjoyed for ten years by the National League's San Francisco Giants. And Seattle is the last big TV market area still untapped by baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Nay for Quality | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...could make laughter, but not without opening a wound. "Truth is the most valuable thing we have," Twain wrote. "Let us economize it." "To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler-and no trouble." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man on the Raft | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...self entering an unlimited Field in which Demosthenes, Ciecre, and others of immortal Fame have exulted before me! A field which incloses the whole Circle of Science and Literature, the History, Wisdom, and Virtue of all Ages. Shall I dare to expatiate here in full Career, like the Nobler Animals, that range at large, or shall I blindly, basely creep, like the male, or the mussell?--Tell...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Lost Adams Diary Found in Vermont | 7/6/1965 | See Source »

...Culpepper never even deliniates his protagonist. We learn in the first scene that Arnold is suspicious and quick tempered, but also a valiant general. Later on we learn he has a tendency to live beyond his means. But we never see how or why his meaner characteristics overcome his nobler ones...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: Treason at West Point | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...implored his own countrymen to accept as the price of peace. His words, his example, his courage were indelibly engraved on the minds of free men. With his passing. the world was diminished and felt it. Amid all the public outpourings of tribute and grief, no words struck a nobler note than the heartsick message that Winston Churchill broadcast to the people of defeated France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender! | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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