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...thoroughly enjoy TIME, but I do not read every paragraph in the magazine from cover to cover. That may account for my singular ignorance which other readers of TIME may not possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...good taste, and solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room. The scene was Christie's. An elegant company, in satins and swallowtails, lounged before the auctioneer's rostrum, watching some gentlemen talk with their fingers. They talked in an ancient language, for they were dealer's agents, and their nodding heads, their twitching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Hammer's Echo | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...singular coincidence, the last baseball victory over Dartmouth was scored by the last team that Coach Mitchell had charge of in Cambridge. During the season of 1916, Coach Mitchell, then assisting with the management of the Boston Braves, was persuaded to coach the University nine, and he directed it through a schedule of 28 games of which the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE OUT TO BREAK DARTMOUTH HOODOO | 6/18/1926 | See Source »

...Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Muirfield | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...name of Yale has been put on the balance scales rather unfortunately, for the interpretation put upon the vote of the University should have emphasized that Yale 'but stooped to truth' as it exists throughout the colleges of the country. Yale is not singular in sentiment or demeanor and the testimony of the recent referendum should be taken as universal rather than unique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Moisture | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

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