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Word: sirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: I found your article on astrology [March 21] merely gently cynical. Why was it not aggressively antagonistic, as any honest investigation should have been? Take the zodiacal list of careers. I observe that they are all professional; is there no place for a few million Indians who are destined to careers as peasants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: Mankind believes that the phases of the moon affect crops; he knows that various radiations influence plant growth and that radio waves are altered by sunspots, yet he stubbornly refuses to believe that he himself can be influenced by forces outside his immediate environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: Shakespeare, as usual, offers the final triumphant words of common sense in unshakable terms (though spoken by a villain, Edmund, in King Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: It would seem that within your midst there is an element that is determined to turn you folks into a nation of patsys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...Sir: After reading of the cruel slaughter of the young harp seals in Canada [March 21], I experienced a feeling of very great and utter sadness. When we no longer care about the very young and helpless, we deserve all the horrors we may reap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 28, 1969 | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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