Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from automobiles or other moving vehicles. TIME, instead of condoning this criminal practice of flipping cigarette butts as an amusing sport, should . . . point out the dangers of such carelessness...
...TIME [April 25] I read this: "[Dr. C. G. Abbot] has worked as a research associate in an eleventh-floor retreat in the Smithsonian's 102-year-old tower, which was reclaimed from bats and owls to give him working quarters...
...this refusal seems to me to be as good a time as any to review the events leading up to it. They fit a pattern that has become familiar to TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, in its business of distributing TIME to anyone who wants to read it anywhere in the world...
...belief that people everywhere should have access to whatever publications they want to read...
...sure they wouldn't, and they never had any consideration for me." This sounded like a slap at Speaker Sam Rayburn, who tried to put over the compromise. Press Secretary Charles Ross hastily explained that there had been a double misprint. The letter should have read: "The compromises got nowhere . . . and they never had any consideration from...