Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Silverman spell out the name of the Democratic candidate and he will see that it as well as the Republican candidate's contains the letters oove and r. Takers of the long end of the bet have against them only Norman Thomas and Death.-ED. Weak Sister Sirs: I am positively indignant this morning, upon reading in your magazine of Aug. 15, the section National Affairs-The Presidency. The gossipy insinuating idea of publishing an article of the weak sister of a great man-Mr. Herbert Hoover- Is TIME out to belittle Mr. Hoover? If so, why? Such...
...Giant of the West" seemed to agree that he was indeed feeling better last week. He continued to frolic with increasing enthusiasm on his New York Stock Exchange (TIME, Aug. 8). After taking a one-day breathing spell, the market boiled for the rest of the week, stocks & bonds soared. From their Depression lows rail shares (Dow-Jones averages) were up a thumping 116%, industrials 73%, utilities 73%-Bonds rose 17%. Brokerage houses with staffs geared to drowsy 700,000-share days joyously recalled old employes to help handle the fat business of 5,500,000 shares daily. Wall Street...
...work of many days and many men before the new type was fashioned and set up on the printing board, to spell out the fable of Hero and Leander, salvaged by the keepers of the shop from the attic of a monastery. And there is no one today who can measure the sense of high adventure with which the Venetian scholars and printers saw the heavy paper take the delicate print of the metal, the Greek myth rescued and restored by the ingenuity of the early Renaissance...
...founded on fact; his proposed remedy, that universities should free themselves from the shackles of commercialization by the route of endowment, is sound. A transformation of emphasis there must be and it can come only from a determined and unceasing effort on the part of universities to break the spell of monetary success and attract brilliant men into cultural rather than lucrative pursuits...
...enter this fight as a Dry and you can spell it out in capital letters. DRY. . . . There will be two weeks' work on my lecture tour to be completed. In the interval there will be little campaigning done. After that there will be plenty. . . . The baby was just born. It is a Pinchot-Marine Corps baby...