Word: reade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is steadily improving. . . . Your summary of the two dominant points of view at the Havana Pan-American Conference is clear and accurate. I find myself more and more dependent on TIME for the news. My reading of the daily newspapers is nowadays usually limited to glancing over the table of contents in my morning and evening paper. For the real news I wait until TIME comes, and then read that carefully. In this way it is possible to keep up with the world's news, and to make the most of the little leisure I have for reading...
When the jury of eleven married men and one widower filed into the Chicago Criminal Court last week, Dr. Amante Rongetti, proprietor of a Chicago hospital, the prisoner, stood up. The jury foreman silently passed the written verdict to the court clerk, who read aloud in courtly monotone...
...Chicago schools (see p. 35), was applauded loudly when he said: "You remember, perhaps, what Dr. Eliot said to us not so many years ago: 'The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.' . . . If I read the times aright, the chambers of commerce, the Lowells, the associations of mayors and governors will succeed in their protests against the rising costs of education. Then our magnificent high schools will follow in the tracks of Napoleon the Little to an inglorious end at some Sedan...
Some with pride, some with anxiety, investors read last week the annual reports of their favorite companies, compared the earnings, made conclusions...
Everyone has seen the self-advertisements of newspapers which read something like this: "Bugle-Clarion led all Creamtown newspapers for February in gain in creampuff advertising." Other Creamtown papers would, meanwhile, be advertising that they led in something else. But prouder still is the paper whose grand total exceeds all others. Last week Editor & Publisher announced total agate lines of advertising for U. S. newspapers in 1927. The ten leaders (all but the last being published seven days per week...