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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other . . . were still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury and had read therein of two $500 prizes to be awarded for the best analysis of four years at college. The other prizewinner was Olive Brossow, this year's product of Northland College, Northland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Epitaph on Learning | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...number of pages, in my opinion, that counts, but it is the style in which the text is written. Keep that style and you are safe, and take all the advertising you can get. JOHN CONDON President The Condon Co., Inc. Tacoma, Wash. Sirs: I believe from the reader's standpoint TIME should not exceed 60 pages. THE PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT Co. Hartford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Great Lakes Aircraft Sirs: Having been an enthusiastic reader of TIME for several years, and the foremost advocate of its value as an advertising medium in this organization, it was with great dismay that I read the singularly inept reference to Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation which appeared in the Sept. 9 issue under the heading of "Aeronautics." . . . Were your correspondents as adept at gathering facts as they seem to be at ferreting out middle names, the following might easily have been unearthed: i) That Cleveland is justly proud of Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, and would rather have as its representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...blind student of journalism in the South wants money to pay for a reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Student Loans | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Science. The science articles are so written as to be of value to layman and scientist alike. William Beebe, for instance, reveals that the wild animals on the Galapagos Islands are tame. L. H. Dudley Buxton, Anthropological reader at Oxford, recalls that Jenghiz Khan was born "with a piece of clotted blood in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patriarch Revised | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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