Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attention has been called to a letter appearing in TIME, Nov. 19 under the signature of the Rev. Paul Bernhardt, First Baptist Church, Elmira, N.Y. I did not write any letter to your magazine, nor did anyone on my staff; and furthermore no one was authorized to use our official stationery in expressing his personal opinion on the British-French entry into Egypt...
...point out the advantages: how neat exams will be for readers, and how much more time for writers. We've noted how successfully the system works at other institutions. We've answered objections, pointing out that it is really fairer to let each student choose his preferred way to write an exam than it is to penalize slow pen-pushers by prescribing blue books and ink only. We've even written notes to graders, suggesting that they might form an interested pressure group...
...noted the existence of a large corpus of Gaelic poetry in pre-Christian times, "long before the English could read or write." "But," she added, "of course when they did learn finally, they produced a Shakspere." She pointed out that the Irish have always had poetry in the marrow of their bones. And this is true, from the most learned scholar to the lowliest illiterate--a characteristic the Irish share with the Japanese...
...brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos. The harsh odds, however, were that Mike had already got his answer ten years ago. At that time Janos Kadar, then a rising star in Hungary's Little Bear constellation, had written to Mike, asking him to send no more parcels or letters...
...Will Flop." Both chambers of commerce and corporations try conscientiously to answer the letters they get. Up to a point, they welcome and even encourage the letter-writing habit on the theory that today's pupils will be tomorrow's customers and tourists. But the whole thing is getting out of hand. Says William H. P. Smith of the Boston chamber: "We're just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director...