Word: reference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...details with regard to the position, as regards relative numbers of the fleets, I would venture merely to refer any one interested in the matter to Senator Hale's admirably lucid statement, with as many statistical tables as are good for the digestion, which is contained in The Congressional Record of May 23, Vol. 65, No. 138. There you will find the whole position stated with the utmost clearness. I do not need to go to any British source for a fair statement of the position-I am well content to leave the matter in the capable hands...
This letter is to correct a slight error of the last two issues of TIME which, as an interested reader and subscriber, it occurs to me you would like to set straight. You in each issue refer to the football team of the University of California as the "Golden Whales." Any team from this, my alma mater, is known as the ''Bears," less frequently as the "Golden Bears." The name comes from the fact that the Grizzly Bear is our State animal, so to speak, being a chief feature of our coat of arms and the Great Seal...
...Corporation of Yale University received and accepted the resignation of Dr. Hiram Bingham, Governor-elect of Connecticut, a member of Yale's History faculty. "The increasing burden of public duties," explained Dr. Bingham, thus referring, as Woodrow Wilson had once to refer at Princeton, to his election by the people of his state to the chair of Governor...
...things go on, all the players will get easier, more friendly and familiar with their audiences, remembering that refer Pan is much more a party for every one than a stage play...
...page 1 TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, you refer to Methodism as "that sect." I am aware of the very general meaning of the word "sect," but you cannot be ignorant of the evil connotation of that term. A recent dictionary of recognized authority makes this distinction: "Sect is an opprobrious and denomination an honorable term for the same body...