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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not missed a copy of TIME since it started. I have read every word of every number. Always I have enjoyed and admired...
Early this week, at long last, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain got around to uttering the dread word Danzig. In a statement approved in advance by Poland and France, the Prime Minister tried to set at rest any lingering doubts that his Government would back up the Poles in resisting a German conquest of the Free City...
...Harper & Brothers, when their Horse and Buggy Doctor was a success last winter, had asked the Christian Herald to discover a parson as kindly and old-fashioned as best-selling Dr. Arthur Emanuel Hertzler. The Protestant monthly (most successful in the U. S.) opened a $250 contest for 500-word descriptions of rural parsons, received 1,000 entries. Paron Gilbert will write, Christian Herald will print serially, and Harpers will publish in toto next spring Parson Gilbert's life story. Tentative title: Horse Sense and Homelike Religion...
...scholar who set out to count the number of times the word the occurred in Shakespeare would be chagrined to learn when he finished the job that someone else had had the same idea, counted faster. To spare scholars such disappointments, James M. Osborn, a young Yale research associate, this week undertook to tell them what their fellow scholars were doing. With an assistant (Robert G. Sawyer), he compiled a comprehensive list of studies being made by researchers in the humanities throughout the world. His list, Work in Progress (not to be confused with the famed working title of James...
...History of the Word "Humour...