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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirer of TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...unsuspicious reader, newspaper reports of this routine transaction of government business held nothing alarming, suggested no sinister note. Surprising, therefore, was the following headline in the Cleveland Plain Dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Government Contract | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...believe in giving the roses while people are alive. I congratulate you on the make-up and substance of TIME. I have been a constant reader since I first saw it, a fews weeks ago. It is concise, original, thorough, dependable. Just the magazine for the busy discriminating man or woman. Good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...regular reader of TIME and can appreciate from your article on tires in last week's issue (Aug. 27) just why you wanted the information and I can assure you positively that there are more Sears, Roebuck tires sold today direct to the consumers than any other tire and besides we are making money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

State of Manhattan. Alan Grant Ogilvie, Reader in Geography at the University of Edinburgh, only child of Sir Francis Grant Ogilvie (chairman of the British Geological Survey Board), took New York City as the illustration of what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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