Word: versions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writing last March (TiME, March 28) to John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton, Andrew W. Mellon, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, said, according to the published, uncontradicted version of his letter: "All our principal debtors are already receiving from Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the United States. . . ." Last week Mr. Mellon said he had written: "All our principal debtors except Great Britain are already, etc." The words "except Great Britain" had somehow been "inadvertently omitted...
...over the Mexican border in airplanes. Hastening to the Eagle airport, landing field near Los Angeles, they hid in the weeds and bushes, waiting. Toward dawn three airplanes arrived. Before the first to land had come to a full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches of green oats, proving, officials maintain, that the aviators had landed in a nearby oatfield, unloaded their Oriental...
...knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, in its annual spring production, has forestalled any such rigorous comment, however, by first telling its audience that it is presenting a musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare: thus frankly admitting that travesty, and nothing else, is to be expected...
...conversation (commonest version...