Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University today conferred 1800 degrees, the largest number in its history, at the Commencement exercises held in Sever Quadrangle, which brought to a close its Two Hundred and Ninety-first year." So reads the opening paragraph of Harvard's annual assertion of intellectual energy...
Accuracy is a jewel. In TIME, May 23, p. 11, col. 2, paragraph second, line 2, you say: "Almost six feet tall" of "Carrie" Nation, Mrs. Nation-her name is "Carry," not "Carrie," as you say. I have her The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, written by herself...
...wish to call your attention to a paragraph in TIME, May 16, in which it is stated that "Cody" Allen is a granddaughter of the late Col. Cody. This is an error as Miss Helen Allen is a daughter of a niece of Col. Cody's making her a grandniece. Buffalo Bill's granddaughter is Jane Cody Garlow, the daughter of Irma Cody Garlow...
...interests of accuracy-and the Savoy-it should be stated that on this unfortunate occasion he was dining, not at the Savoy but at the hotel next door, or so every London newspaper reported. This may seem a very trivial rebuke, and so it would be, had not your paragraph unwittingly slandered the one man in London who has looked after the hats and coats of more well-known people than anyone else in the world; and furthermore, in a period of 43 years has never had an accident happen to any of them, to say nothing of having them...
...coat for the last 20 years, he never forgets a face; and the now famous coat which was so nearly stolen has been under his care on more than one occasion. (It was not, as it happens, a particularly new coat.) Hence his feelings at your paragraph. But Joseph is as shy as his memory is razor-keen, and on his behalf I venture, therefore, to exonerate him from an occurrence with which I am quite sure thousands of Americans reading TIME, and knowing Joseph, would have associated...