Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly enjoy TIME, but I do not read every paragraph in the magazine from cover to cover. That may account for my singular ignorance which other readers of TIME may not possess...
...paragraph on "Smoke Photography" which appeared on p. 16 of the Aug. 30 issue is not quite accurate. The film, which is sensitive to infra-red rays, which penetrate haze (scarcely smoke), is sensitized with "kryptocyanine." This dye is not a secret in spite of its name; it was discovered by Adams and Haller at the color laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry in 1919 and is made in our laboratories by Dr. H. T. Clarke. After many attempts we have succeeded in using it for sensitizing film...
...Cabinet is a body totally unknown to the Constitution, hence members do not hold office "under the United States." Says Edward S. Corwin, famed constitutional lawyer, and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University: "Article I, paragraph 6 is no obstacle to the President's constituting his Cabinet of chairmen of Congressional Committees. Members of present Cabinet are officers only as heads of departments. A Cabinet of Committee heads would not be officers, only advisers...
Ordinarily, when a distinguished jurist-statesman refuses an invitation to a public banquet, it is only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the ordinary thing to one Merwin Hart of Utica who had asked him to a dinner in honor of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., went on and on in a way that would have given any social secretary the willies. Midway in the long second paragraph Mr. Root's meaning...
...memory of painful historical experience. "Just as history justifies those laws issued half a century ago, which then provoked general dissatisfaction, so the President is confident that future history will justify what has been done." Rebuttal. The Mexican Episcopate issued a long and passionate rebuttal next day. One paragraph distilled the whole document to a sulphuric essence...