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...anti-Semitic bias (Nov. 27). I am a Jew of quite highly developed sensitiveness, yet never once in all my cover-to-cover reading of your magazine have I discovered anything in the least offensive. On the contrary, touching particularly the developments in Germany you have been so trenchant and frank that I've wondered why TIME has not been barred in the Reich. (At least, it was apparently not under the ban when I was in Germany in May.) The Görings and Goebbels certainly have a case against you, but not the Untermyers...
With his quiet ways and trenchant phrases he made disciples of a multitude of his students and farmers whom he advised to pay off their mortgages in the days when that was still possible...
...Dewing, 53, Bostonian born, was long a noted figure at Harvard, no less for his trenchant teachings than for his handsome beard-which has never been shaved, which once, on shipboard, caused him to be mistaken for a Maharaja. No mere academician is he. Ten or 15 years ago he began buying up small New England utility companies that were not doing too well. Turning precept to example, he put them on a profitable basis. While Insull interests and New England Power Co. were struggling for control of New England utilities, he more than held his own, adding...
...weeks ago, when the CRIMSON published a series of comments on the educational system here, written by members of the graduating class, the most trenchant criticisms were directed at the defective operation of the tutorial system. Although there was considerable divergence of opinion in regard to causes, most of the writers agreed that the tutorial system fails partly because it does not, on the whole, attract the best men. If this is true, it logically follows that Harvard itself no longer attracts the best teaching ability in America, since most of the younger men of the Faculty are tutors...
...Wyndham Lewis is brilliant. He has a pointed, a trenchant style; and he has written one novel, which does not fall short of greatness. "Tarr." And with his equipment, he should not waste his time flying Remarque or Sassoon, if they are really as insignificant as he claims...