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Sirs: One shudders for the outcome of the war and despairs for the future if any but a negligible scintilla of public opinion be represented by the letter on "Degrading Propaganda" in TIME, May 4. These people have no conception of the meaning of total...
...shrewd, he burst into the automotive industry nearly 30 years ago with the first practical self-starter. Today few U. S. automobiles drive the roads, few airplanes fly the skies, that do not have his gadgets in them: Bendix starters, radios, brakes, Stromberg as well as Zenith carburetors, Scintilla magnetos...
...Public Works Engineers had also turned it down. Steamship operators did not want it. Much expert geological opinion held it would endanger Florida's water supply. It was the only great waterway job ever undertaken without the specific consent of Congress. Declared Senator Vandenberg: "There is not a scintilla of economic justification for going on with...
...statement only sought to put Judge Wilson at rights with the country after your false statement, for which you have not a scintilla of fact, had presented him to the nation as an intemperate and im- proper person to be United States Judge. It would have been far better, Mr. Secretary, if you would retract your own libel of Judge Wilson and put your own house in order before intruding your unwelcome person into purely legislative matters. . . . You have the effrontery to tell me in the legislative branch how to conduct a fair hearing when you don't even...
...commentary on the lethargy, or, as a German might put it, "weltschmerz," prevailing among undergraduates on the subject of sport, many of whom have been richly endowed by Mother Nature with the strength to fill the gap, and who need only exhibit a scintilla of interest to discover that they would richly enjoy these sports and would contribute at one and the same time to their own physical well-being and their college's distinction, that such a condition should prevail, and I think that there are many other undergraduates who felt the same way about it. S. T. Orton...