Word: previously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shame for TIME'S letter department to be used as a medium by TIME readers for slamming previous letter writers. Letters of criticism and appreciation are of great value, but when they are written just to give digs at some other reader who has written to TIME, it really does not help anybody one way or another and seems a rather childish attitude. This may sound as if the pot were calling the kettle black, but I assure you that the pot does not feel as black as the kettle looks...
...Secretariat of the League of Nations reluctantly made public, last week, a note dated one month previous in which the Brazilian Government of Premier Octavio Mangabeira reaffirmed Brazil's intention to withdraw from League membership in June...
...Harvard Flying Club broke all its previous flight records for one day, when several pilots of that organization remained in the air yesterday for a total of six and one half hours...
Thus, parenthood-"the greatest profession on earth"-as sharp critics see it. If these critics had visited the Parents' Exposition at the Grand Central Palace in Manhattan last week, they would have found little to contradict their previous observations. Exhibitions of groceries, toys, corrective literature, propaganda were there aplenty. Parents said: "Don't touch that;" and children clamored for ice cream. Then there arose a tiff between eminent parents; the officials of the Parents' Exposition, at the suggestion of New York Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea, refused to allow the American Birth Control League...
John Thorp's invention was a ring device for spinning cotton thread from cotton fibre more rapidly and perfectly than any previous machine. Mainly because of it is the present vastness of the world's textile industries possible. Of 160,000,000 cotton spinning spindles in the world, 100,-ooo.ooo use the Thorp ring. Very little is known about the inventor. The Ency-clopcedia Britannica mentions him only twice, misspelling his name "Thorpe" both times...