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Farrington of Hawaii was in Washington last week to call on President Coolidge, confer with the State Department, refresh his memory of the capital whence comes his power, and to "talk up" Hawaii. He was asked (by pressmen) how he would like to be Governor General of the Philippines. Said he: "Why talk about impossibilities? I am building a house in Honolulu and I have a newspaper" there. I am perfectly satisfied where...
Sirs: Why not let Subscriber Epstein (TIME, Aug. 15) in addition to curbing his use of the term "sap" also refresh his memory regarding peculiarities of the verbs "lie" and "lay", should he again care to express an opinion publicly? transitive; "Lay," it has long been thought, requires a direct object. "Lie" is the intransitive verb meaning the act of reclining...
...refresh herself prior to visiting the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, Queen Marie hastened to the Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
...student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
...Williams have to refer to their notes all the time when discussing the case, how are we supposed to remember every word when we have no notes? Today I asked them to let us have a transcript of the evidence so that we could read it, and refresh our recollection of what was said. Did we get it? We did not. It isn't according to practice, or something like that. There is objection to our looking at the record...