Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When I read about your new advertisement policy in a recent issue, I was cheered to learn that TIME'S management, more courageous than most publishers, had decided to limit the amount of advertising matter. As I recall it, you said you would in the future restrict the newsmagazine to 80 pages. You can imagine what I thought of your courage when I opened the Oct. 7 issue and found the last page numbered 84. Have you . . . "weaseled...
...extra price for speed. Last year the Santa Fe handled an average of 12,400 passengers per day on its trains. It might lose several hundred of these to airplanes and not be affected seriously. The increased travel by rail due to the growth of the country would probably make up for any loss such as this. The airplane certainly will not affect us in the same degree that the automobile has done. In 1920 we handled approximately 15,000,000 passengers-in 1928 approximately 4,500,000- the decrease being due entirely to automobile and bus. In the case...
...West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish...
...emotional life very successfully, and after he has trailed the cadet lines down the streets and across the river he is reconciled to his lot once more. All during the past week a feeling of restlessness has been growing more and more pronounced, and most disconcertingly the Vagabond would come to himself with a start in the midst of a lecture to find that inwardly he was listening to martial music...
...been handed down as true that when Edgar Allen Poe was a cadet, he furnished the surprise element in the life of the Corps. On one occasion it was announced that white gloves would be worn to the next formation. Cadet Poe complied with orders and wore white gloves--and nothing else...