Word: wheatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every state in the Union has a specialty, a featured output or possession, which is the twig upon which that bright bird, sectional pride, may sit to preen its feathers. To Oregon its apples, Texas its longhorns, Kansas its jayhawks; the wheat-farms of Minnesota, the sandlots of Florida, the mammy-songs of Alabama and the golden whales of California. And Indiana, the lilac and honeysuckle state of Indiana, whose breeze is thick with fancies as its gardens are with bees-Indiana is the nursery of writers. So many are the literary people who have come from Indiana that when...
...glad to see that your correspondent thinks the Prince would be "amused" at my first letter. I have no doubt whatever that he would be! There is often a grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff. MARY ELIZABETH ROBINN...
...objection to the daily newspaper is that it is too great a strain on the eyes, and consumes too much time and attention to pore through its endless columns to extract a grain of wheat from mountains of chaff. But TIME does not exhibit a greater discrimination between essential and nonessential facts. Facts that vitally affect the progress of human affairs throughout the world, facts of business and industry, of scientific discovery and achievement, of race and political and religious belief, are half glimpsed or wholly ignored or suppressed...
...CARL I. WHEAT State Bldg., San Francisco...
...advertisement of which Original Subscriber Wheat complains listed the names of the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court and mentioned the fact that their troubles-and the vicissitudes of the Constitution-are recorded in TIME. Due to ignorance by a member of the Promotion Department, the name of Mr. Associate Justice McKenna was listed; Mr. Stone, as all TIME readers know, was appointed last February to take Mr. McKenna's place...