Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take this opportunity to express to you my appreciation of your magazine? A minister hasn't very much time for so-called secular reading, but after reading TIME I feel that I am well posted on the current affairs of the day. I look forward eagerly to its arrival, and never let it go until I have read it from cover to cover. In any intellectual group I am always proud to give TIME as my authority...
Seventy-five Freshmen signed a petition favoring the abolition of compulsory athletics for first year men which was circulated through the Yard last night. At least fifty more students desired a change in the present arrangements, but were unwilling to subscribe to the proposal for outright abolition. The petition read as follows...
...moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." Something must be done about this. Have we no Kohler among our Alumni? Then let a bowl, a basin, be passed about through all House Dining Rooms and let sweet charity flow into it that we may be the godlier. For if results...
...there are lawyers whose study of the precedents convinced them that while Mr. Roosevelt himself may have the best intentions, his subordinates can apply pressure by using these very ambiguous sections of codes, and it will be the courts and not the President who will read what the law has said. For this new way of requiring consent in advance is not only written into the National Industrial Recovery Act but it is being inserted in many new legislative proposals that have come out since the President gave his assurance to the signers of the Graphic Art or Printing codes...
What is the President's position in all this? He tells his callers he is "not informed" about the bill--that he really hasn't read...