Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deference to its Latin American friends (who dislike seeing the term "American" appropriated by the United States), TIME employs a "checker" whose special function it is to cross out "American" wherever it is improperly used and to insert "U.S." In editing "early American furnishings" into "early U. S. furnishings," this person permitted his zeal to overbalance his good sense...
...under an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce. We recommend the progressive extension of the Air Mail Service, preferably by contract, and also that steps be taken to meet the manifest needs for airways and air-navigation facilities, including an adequate weather service maintained by public authority and planned with special reference to the needs of air com-merce...
...Fergusons stuck to their guns. Governess Ferguson announced positively that she would not call a special session of the legislature...
...about this special session they want me to call. They tried to camouflage it as an inquiry into the foot and mouth disease and tick eradication...
...minor sports in the University. The plan to be considered,--the giving of a minor "H" to members of championship teams in place of the present award, has in its favor the success of a similar practice at Yale and other universities, as well as the obvious fairness of special recognition of successful teams by the University. It is well known that many sports which at Harvard maintain a tenuous existence at best, flourish in other places. At most of these institutions some such plan as that suggested here is in effect. Whether or not there is any connection between...