Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crane [Charles R., onetime U. S. Minister to China.-Ed.] told me an amusing story that Gailey found Feng laboriously trying to improve his knowledge of English by attempting to read the life of Abraham Lincoln, and offered to help him to the extent of tutoring an hour a day at any time when Feng was free. Feng left Gailey to confer, with his adjutant as to the hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain...
...fisherfolk don't read the papers," said sturdy Breton Bougrad some days later, "All we knew was that it must be a Belgian. . . . We wrapped it in a tarpaulin, lashed it across our stern, and put straight in to Boulogne...
Persons who read papers knew that the $55,000,000 estate of Belgium's richest jew could now be distributed to his heirs, since his death was certain at last. A few days before the body was found the Court of Appeals at Brussels had refused to issue a death certificate, holding that Captain Loewenstein was simply "missing," after his disappearance from an airplane in flight over the English Channel (TIME, July 16). This ruling, if persisted in, would have made it impossible to distribute the estate until 100 years after Captain Loewenstein's birth...
Nothing so testifies to the enlightened literacy of U. S. citizens as the fact that the great mass of them have, at one time or another, read the Saturday Evening Post. Many internationally smart U. S. citizens are proud of the world's most widely read magazine; but in London they must sometimes apologize and sometimes blush for the Post's chronic misuse of British titles and excruciating presentations of the habits and customs of butlers, footmen, peers, peeresses...
National Cash Register Co. (Dillon, Read protege): $3,638,343 as against...