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...radio broad cast: "If he [the King] marries her [Mrs. Simpson] he will offend against the standards of the old morality. On the other hand, it seems to me that the new morality which says he should marry the woman he is in love with is a cleaner, a more honest and a better morality than the old. I myself should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blown to Bits'' | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Looking optimistically towards a cleaner and more efficient governmental machinery, the Fellowships give qualified men an excellent opportunity to bring up the general level of politics. Because of the small number of Fellowships, however, the value of this opportunity is extremely limited. The field should be widened and funds should be appropriated or accomodate more men if the plan is to have any noticeable influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOWARDS A CLEARER HORIZON | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brine Business | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Eddie Carr, the specialty man, is singularly unattractive and vulgar without being funny. The brilliance of his dialogue (on the cleaner side) is shown by the persistence of the fossil about the WPA workers who were mistaken for statues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

...pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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