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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just a word as to what I think of TIME. . . . For one thing, it's brief but complete; it covers the field adequately without the verbosity of a reporter who is being paid by the column. Again, it is surprising: the first week it came on Saturday, the next week on Sunday, this week on Monday and thus it leaves me wondering what day it will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price...
...look at this draft convention. From the first word to the last there is no mention or allusion to the League of Nations. . . . [This shows a] fixed purpose of boycotting the League and all its works. . . . Article 63 [of the Soviet draft convention] declares that five copies should be deposited in some capital of some country of five continents. This shows imagination, but it is unnecessary to insult the League in this way and has no bearing on general disarmament. Copies can be sent to Geneva as well as to Timbuctoo...
...beating of invisible wings can still be heard, sometimes, in the warm air. It is the town, also, from which the apostles departed upon their dazzling, dangerous journeys. No more suitable point of focus could have been discovered for those who are engaged in spreading God's word. This fact especially is satisfying to Chairman Mott, a man whose energetic character resembles some laboratory apparatus of light and sensitive leaves, trembling with the great force an exterior electricity has communicated to them. On the night of the first gathering, in the German Sanatorium on the Mount of Olives...
...usual near any peak of stock market enthusiasm, an oracle of immense prestige dramatically crowed at the precise moment when the market needed a cheery word to carry it into still higher price area. In July 1926, Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, was interviewed the midnight he sailed for Europe. He was said to have said that General Motors "should.and will" go 100 points higher...
...only another demonstration of the fact that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...