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...Variant spellings of the family name...
...effect of Mr. Morrow's declaration was to make him the leading Republican Wet in this year's election. His program was not new. Democratic Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland had been propounding it for years, while Alfred Emanuel Smith had advocated a slight variant of it in 1928. But Nominee Morrow brought to the discussion a certain large non-political prestige which others had lacked and which gave weight to his words. He added respectability to the Wet cause. As the first notable Republican to break through the party's Dry stand taken at Kansas City...
Many archer-readers of TIME must have been disappointed by TIME'S failing to report on the fiftieth jubilee tournament of the National Archery Association held in Chicago Aug. 12 to 15. Archery though not so popular as golf or its kitchen sink (a la Will Rogers) variant, peewee golf, is older than golf, makes the same demands for coolheadedness and skill, yields the same exercise, is just as captivating of interest and enthusiasm. At the tournament several records were broken, notably the world's long-distance flight record with a yew bow. The Rev. L. L. Dailey...
...Swiss citizen and therefore changed his Polish "Ignacy" to "Ignatz") did not re-sign last week, and walrus-whiskered, swashbuckling, often eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski continued morosely to dictate. About once a year he makes some striking public utterance, and for the past two years it has been a variant of his celebrated saying...
...Circumferences." When Iowa's Ernest Horn became wrought up over the inadequacy of the English alphabet to represent sounds accurately, he started calculating-14 sounds for "s," 22 for "long e," 21 for "ir," etc. Variant spellings for "ir" intrigued him: (h) er, (s) ir, (ch) or (ade), (c) er (tain), err, (theat)re (m)yrrh. For lowan reasons were included (n)ear, (hon)or. When he finished with "circumference," he figured 396,000,000 phonetic spellings...