Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another thing, why should the people of this country worry what goes on in Germany? It's none of there business. Herr Hitler does not tell us what we should do to the prisoners, so why should we tell him what to do to the Jews...
...promises at all. Said he: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is 'Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted.' This statement is about as informative as it would be to say that 'For Those Who Like This Sort of Thing, This is the Sort of Thing That Those People Like...
...also is the 400-foot Tower of the Sun, a nondescript steeple which serves to carry a 44-bell carillon. Last week San Francisco critics bore down hard on the Tower. Said Sculptor Beniamino Bufano: "It should have been a mosque or a minaret." Said Sculptor Ralph Stackpole: "The thing is up. What can you do about...
President William E. Levis of Owens-Illinois took the position that he was interested in making bottles and wished the whole patent muddle could be avoided. "A patent," said he, "is not a grant of right to use the thing, it is only a grant to exclude other people from using the same thing." Pressed by Senator William E. Borah to admit that Hartford-Empire in effect fixed milk bottle prices, Mr. Levis only admitted that certain companies, including his own, "led" prices...
TIME, recognizing this perennial responsibility of poets, recognizes also its own journalistic responsibility to name poets poets, poetasters poetasters, and poeticules poeticules. For the poets' effort to make words make sense is an effort to make the thing on which all human communication-letter-writing, conversation, journalism, literature-ultimately depends. To the extent that poets fulfill their poet-hood they are making human communication more possible. To the extent that poets lapse into poetastiness or poeticulosity they are perverting or muddling human communication...