Word: paragraphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME is to be commended for its scrupulous observance of French orthography. Why not try a paragraph or a column in French ? Your subscribers all read French and would no doubt welcome such an addition...
Years hence, when the definitive biography of Henry Ford is written, there will be a paragraph beginning with the hour of 8:25 on the Sunday evening of March 27, 1927. At that moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed the car's nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge...
...intending to renew my subscription for TIME, which soon expires after a six months' period. I have read every number from cover to cover nearly. At first I liked its terse, piquant style, but have tired of it. Your paragraph titles are frequently frivolous, silly and often, too, misleading. Nor do I approve of the striking adjectives frequently used, not in themselves, but in their conclusion or inferences. I do not accuse the magazine of bigotry towards any one thing or belief...
...doubtful states named in the above paragraph, consider Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma. Five out of six of their Senators are now Democrats. These states have 17 votes; give them to Governor Smith; Smith is still defeated, for 227 + 17 is only 244, and Smith needs 266 to be elected President...
...provident Nature turned them into a goodly wine with a 13% "kick." They were seized by Federal authorities, legally, Judge Hand held. He ruled: "Possession of grape juice for home use . . . becomes unlawful . . . whenever the liquid becomes intoxicating, whether through natural fermentation or otherwise." Thus he sternly interpreted the paragraph of the Volstead Act that states that a householder needs no permit and cannot be punished for manufacturing "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his own home." The law, purposely or otherwise, ignored the obvious fact that cider becomes hard, fruit juices gather alcoholic strength...