Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pamphlet also includes a--paragraph on Credits for educational Work in Armed Services which outlines a program for considering special educational work completed in the Army or Navy as accredited courses to be counted for a Harvard degree in post-war years...
Sirs: The paragraph [TIME, Feb. 1] referring to wheat and cotton would indicate that in view of surplus on hand, wheat and cotton should not be grown this year. Such an argument omits such factors as these: Many wheat growers can grow nothing else owing to climatic conditions. Many wheat growers produce as a part of rotation, which they do not wish to upset. While there is an overall surplus of wheat, there is an acute shortage of some needed varieties. In view of postwar needs, the surplus on hand is not excessive. There are similar qualifications in the care...
...story reaches a furious climax in paragraph two, when young Miss Anderson's father arrives "at just the moment that I paid the inevitable penalty of nervous haste by spilling the salmon and peas all over the kitchen floor. I was on the verge of a tearful collapse (it says here)--my pride completely crushed." (Now here was such pathos, such tragedy, such stark realism, that I just had to go on to the next paragraph, without even stopping to order my customary scotch and water...
After reading the final paragraph (in which Dorothy May cats sandwiches and learns "that doing the thoughtful or impulsive bit beyond what is expected is worth the trouble--and the occasional mishap--whatever it may cost"), I rang for Pierre, the steward, and told him to be thoughtful or impulsive and add a second jigger to my usual scotch and water...
...little did instructors know or care about radio writing that one student was given back a script in English A-1 on which had been written: "This does not say enough in its first paragraph. You answer the questions when and where but not who and what"--advice which can be found in any manual on newsstory writing, but which certainly cannot be applied to radio writing...