Word: postman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note in TIME, Aug. 2, a letter from Terrell Croft, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, stating that your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p. m. on July 14 to his address. I'll admit that in this case TIME made good time. However, I wish to advise the gentleman from Yucatan that Montana is always to be found on the map, and is not in the "slow" class by any means. Your issue of Aug. 2 was received by me at 9 a. m. this morning, Aug. 1. It happened to be Sunday, which accounts...
Sirs: Your July 12 issue was delivered by the Mexican postman at 4 p.m. on July 14, to this address. This is pretty good going-is it not? TERRELL CROFT...
Eleven thousand anxious boys and girls watched last week, as they had already watched for a fortnight, for the postman. But even when he came they turned away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that...
...Whittern," the postman said, "Mrs. Roy Emerson Whittern...
...TIME is very much appreciated in my home. We look forward to each issue with an interest unequalled by other publications. The other day we found the Postman paused on the doorstep deeply engrossed in a copy. It is understood to be a weekly occurrence. He is now charged with being an enthusiast...