Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your article on "Boomers & Howlers" (TIME, Aug. 19, p. 11) reported well the serious forest fire situation with which "desperate, haggard foresters'" were coping at the time. But in your footnote you came far short of the fact in giving the number of forest fires in the U. S. last year. Not 6,921 fires, but some 177,000 fires occurred during 1928. . . . C. E. RANDALL Forest Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington...
...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
...knew Woodrow Wilson with undoubted intimacy-Joseph Patrick Tumulty, for 13 years his private secretary, confidant, biographer. Choking with indignation, Mr. Tumulty assailed the anonymity of Professor Pitkin's informant: "If this be a privilege reserved to psychologists or psychoanalysts, as Professor Pitkin is supposed to be, as well as a teacher in a school of journalism, then the privilege has long ago been usurped by the ghouls who invaded the tombs of the historic ancient dead, as Professor Pitkin now invades that noble sarcophagus in the National Cathedral in the Capital of the Nation...
...When Joseph was 17 he was brought from Canaan into Egypt, sold to Potiphar, a captain of the guard. In the house of Potiphar he was well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
Along with Mr. Bingham's policy of "athletics for all" has gone an attempt to increase the emphasis on having the men play for the inherent pleasure in playing a game well and make the desire to win not a paramount consideration in Harvard athletics. This idea has been applied especially in choosing coaches, notably in lacrosse and soccer, where young graduates have supplanted middle aged experts. Surely this policy could be furthered considerably in football "giving the game back to the players" as it often has been expressed...