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...violently dislike to up-cudgel over old issues, but the occasion makes move vivid our recognition of the utter absurdity of dormitory regulations. Here is an affair intended primarily as an outlet for the social pursuits of freshmen and non-Hellenics, and yet an aged and Puritanical doctrine prevents them from enjoying it to the fullest extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Nicholas Miraculous was the name T. R. gave to his friend, after St. Nicholas Thaumaturgis. Few contest the aptness of the title. Dynamic, downright in his utter "rightness," often sententious and rhetorical in public and private utterances, Dr. Butler serves the U. S. as an unofficial ambassador-at-large. He is at home anywhere. He is a member of the Institut de France, was the first unofficial foreign visitor ever to be received by the French Academy. He has advised the British Cabinet, lectured the Reichstag in German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...what stuff is he made? Is he bold and courageous and independent or is he just an honest politician whom Fate has tossed to the top? Has he the capacity to govern? Does his mind generate large ideas of political reformation or does he just utter lofty platitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: The Squire of Hyde Park | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...hearts of the American pee-pul by our great constitooshun." Mr. Bliven analyzed the facts and presented his conclusion that free speech was well on the road to suppression. Whether or not his reasoning was correct, he at least had something more than trite catch-words to utter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too True | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

...much puzzled by the fact that, in reporting a recent sensational trip from Orlando to a Philadelphia hospital [TIME. Nov. 9], your usually complete magazine suppressed the real news value of the incident-namely, the fact that the child was a sacrifice to the utter stupidity, ignorance and incompetence of a large section of the medical profession. I thought at first your press date cut off full details, and they would follow in the next issue. But I have not seen them yet. Why? The truth was given big space in all Florida newspapers the day after the child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1931 | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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