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Word: whats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I want to correct what seems to me the wrong impression, conveyed in your article "Airports" on p. 44 of TIME, April 29: "But the English air lines provide comfortable automobiles between airport and metropolis."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

"If it is near dinner time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says, 'Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at 5, gentlemen.' 'So do I,' says everybody else, except two men who ought to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: As Original U. S. Buyer-then subscriber-now buyer-mailing this suggestion for what it may be worth to your headines-Milestones column: "Hatched"-Born "Matched"-Married "Dispatched"-Died or killed "Scratched"-Demoted "Patched"-Reconciled "Batched"-Divorced "Latched"-Impounded

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

The American straphangers, of course. Where bond issues reach into thousands of millions, the banking fraternity will whoop it up in glee, of course. What if the wary investor steers clear of such bonds, having in mind fresh cancellations of German bonds 5c per $100? There are plenty of estates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

In Singapore the coolie says, with a shrug: 'Ahpah bohlch buot?" In plain American: 'What's the use?" As the Saint-Simonistes claim: "Voilà l'exploitation de I'homme par I'homme!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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