Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no complaint to make, but merely wish to state a preference. Re the coons, if we must have coon let us have Rebecca and ignore the Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls, Tex. Son Tries...
...suit was based upon statements appearing in a series of articles published in 1924 and 1925 by the Dearborn Independent upon the subject matter of co-operative associations organized on the Sapiro plan. ... It has since been found that inaccuracies of fact were present in the articles and that erroneous conclusions were drawn from these inaccuracies by the writer...
...adolescent boy who had these highflown fancies was subject to waking visions that almost amounted to seizures. In the grown youth, an intense, ascetic student of electro-dynamics whose extravagant notions of planet power had given place to practical work on telephones, this visionary weakness became translated into an extraordinary ability to visualize, in minutest detail and exact dimensions, new mechanical devices sprung from an inventive brain...
Author Benjamin, describing prodigious doings, allows himself to become infected with the superb extravagance of his subject. He rhapsodizes too readily, too insistently points the salient qualities, too rarely sees the subtleties fused in the character of Honore de Balzac. Mediocre translation has not improved the book which is, all in all, a cage too small for its canary...
...This has led me to direct my personal attention to this subject, in order to ascertain the exact nature of these articles. As a result of this survey I confess that I am deeply mortified that this journal, which is intended to be constructive and not destructive has been made the medium for resurrection of exploded fictions, for giving currency to the so-called protocols of the 'Wise Men of Zion,' which have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries, and for contending that the Jews have been engaged in a conspiracy to control the capital...