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Undersigned subscriber is a "Cover to Cover" reader of TIME, but, I have seen no mention of the passing of Robert S. Vessey, Gov. of S. Dak., 1908-12. He issued the first "Mother's Day'' proclamation, full of beautiful thoughts, and was a very lovable man. He died 10/17/29, in Pasadena, Calif...
...author has been extremely apt in his choice of similes and metaphors to clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more...
...masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that precludes the possibilities of stirring adventure. The reader acquires this contemporary angle, and asks no more from the pleasant story that it offers...
...mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...
There were 2,977,500 copies. Each copy weighed 1 lb., 14 oz. Its 272 pages, containing 275,000 words of editorial matter, comprised 295-1/6 sq. ft., enough to paper the ceiling of a room 24½ ft. x 12 ft. An average reader (225 words per minute) would take 20 hr., 20 min., to peruse it. Sixty 45-ton presses, working night & day shifts, printed it in three weeks. A total of 214 national advertisers appeared in it, 63 in color. At an average of $9,000 per page, the advertising revenue was approximately...