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...even faster. At present, the U.S. is taxing more than 25% of the national income, and the Federal Government is running a deficit. Not surprisingly, U.S. prices have nearly doubled since 1939, thus cutting almost in half all dollar savings, all insurance, all pensions. ("Bryan, wouldst thou wert living at this hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The Big Bite | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Henry V, came upon Shakespeare's Henry VI and Bedford's outcry: Hung be the heavens with black! and added, in his prose, "The heavens were hung with black when Henry died." Or, as if a dull reader quoted: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, and commented: "Shelley says the skylark never was a bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1950 | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Shoot!" At 8:45 in the morning, six miles northeast of the town of Van Wert, West brought the big haulaway rig jolting and hissing to a stop. There was a police car across the highway. Van Wert County's grizzled Sheriff F. Roy Shaffer called: "You got any passengers in back?" West said: "None that I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Punks | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Thou art thyself although Montgomery, Wert thou but mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Balcony Scene | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Fool: Yes, indeed. Thou wouldst make a good fool. . . . If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Why 7 Is Not 8 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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