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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undivided attention until absorbed. Wife, brother and wife's parents also read it thoroughly. Then to office lobby table. Your style draws me through sections I am ordinarily uninterested in, generally scanned: sports, science, medicine. Have loaned and given many copies to friends boosting your circulation for their sake not yours. Only criticism - too few photographs. G. E. RUSSELL Advertising Manager Oilman Fanfold Corp., Ltd. Niagara Falls, N. Y. TIME averages 24 pictures per week in 40 to 44 text pages (including Letters). Do subscribers agree with Subscriber Russell, want more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Average Reader pictures Henry VIII as a fat lecher who married many wives. He was, he did. But there was more in his marrying than lechery. An autocrat surrounded by lovely "maids of doubtful honor," he had no need to marry multitudinously. He needed a legitimate son for the sake of his pride, his dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teddy Tudor | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where he began drawing classical orders under the tutelage of Architect James Renwick for more than six years. This able mentor disciplined his pupil's design sense, his pen and pencil technique, later famed for its own sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect Goodhue soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nebraska Capitol | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Loening of Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. Assistant Secretary Warner promised the Intercollegiate Aeronautical Association the co-operation of the National Aeronautic Association. Associate Editor Weiss described TIME'S flying school* and suggested that some light plane manufacturers would gladly give planes to well-organized college units for the sake of the free publicity and advertising the gifts would engender. President Loening clapped his approval to the idea but begged off from applications for his big amphibians. For best college flying activities he has put up $5,000 worth of prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: College Flyers | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Majesty's Government in Great Britain would grant imperial (tariff) preference to Australian butter. "Any such policy of preference," said the Secretary, "must be based on quality. We can never ask the people of this country in the long run to pay a high price for the mere sake of Empire preference unless the butter offered them is of the highest quality. After my experience today I have only praise for the quality of Australian butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Ordeal by Butter | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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