Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: First I wish to inform you that I am not a subscriber to TIME, for heaven for bid that I should sink so low. I am sorry to say your magazine must come into our home, since my husband is a sub scriber. Therein lies the bone of contention in our happy home. Every time Mr. Barger reads TIME, he will sit up, chuckle to himself and exclaim, "I would rather give up you than give up TIME. I get so much pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension...
...House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...
...say little more than 'God have mercy on his soul...
...struggle between the Wets and the Drys is brutal beyond words. It is the women who give the Drys their ridiculous strength. 'Not caught, not guilty,' say the poachers. That is life in America. By the millions they live as poachers and contrabanders in an atmosphere infected with puritanism, professional spies and amateur informers...
Sometimes he visits his experimental plants in Colorado and on Long Island. Six years ago he said: "The matter of transmitting power by wireless is now so well in hand that I can say I am ready now to transmit 100,000 horsepower by wireless without a loss of more than 5% in transmission. The plant required to transmit this amount will be much smaller than some of the wireless telegraph plants now existing and will cost only $10,000,000, including water development and electrical apparatus. The effect will be the same whether the distance is one mile...