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...expressway were to follow the Volpe route, it would not pass under the Center. Since any change at all in the expressway plans would have drawn a considerable amount of Prudential blood, the company's executives laid down an ultimatum. They did not care what kind of road (viz. free or toll) went through, so long as it went underneath the Center. Without a clarifying decision from the Supreme Judicial Court before its summer recess, they would kill the Back Bay project; no tickoes, no washes...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: The Public Weal | 2/23/1961 | See Source »

...American sportsmen (joke) cannot conduct themselves as true sportsmen, viz., the most recent tennis fiasco in Australia, let's keep them home and not remove all doubt from the rest of the world as to American bad manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1961 | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

There are rewards, true. But I'm impatient with any talk that it's all milk and honey in the ministry. Such talk is secularly unrealistic (viz., the large number of deadbeat ministers) and theologically unsound (viz., the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 16, 1960 | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...citing gospel tunes such as I Need Thee Every Hour and Blessed Assurance with the blissful assurance that they are out of date and hard to sing, this musical ragamuffin exhibits the familiar technique of the collectivist revolutionists, viz., to state a false proposition as if it were a long-accepted fact. Persons like this Wiant are not competent to sense the enduring sincerity of the very gospel songs they presume to judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...seems strange to have an Irish name at the top of such a conglomerate of races. Might I suggest a new name for the "infant," viz. the "QUINN-qua-gesima" state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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