Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Almost overnight after the invasion of Belgium and Holland, isolationist and pacifist letters practically disappeared from TIME'S incoming mail. The following letters are a cross section of recent comment about the U. S. and the war. It shows the emergence of feelings and beliefs that have evidently been long latent and inarticulate, the sharpest apparent change in reader-opinion in TIME'S experience...
While Muralist Poor and his daughter clambered up scaffolds and laid on paint with a will, students, townspeople and teachers crowded the spacious hall to watch and comment (see cut). By last week, with Painter Poor halfway through his revelation (a huge, 15-ft. figure of Abraham Lincoln surrounded by scenes and symbols of agriculture and industry), some 15,000 visitors had come to have a look, and State collegians were beginning to think that watching a muralist was more fun than watching a mural...
Seniors were asked to comment on the question of improving Harvard's policy toward the personal and social adjustment of the individual. Many suggestions were put forward, and they were quoted extensively. One Senior suggested, "It shouldn't fire all its good instructors and keep only the Reds and bores.: Another ventured "cocuucation," while still another declared, "Being in chemistry, I wouldn't know...
...country. What truth may be in these reports we do not know. As we remember such things, the press was always quick to attribute to Harvard responsibility for the antics of its least representative students. But since a respected member of the faculty has thought is worth while to comment upon the document, we take it that the matter of a citizen's responsibility in arms is being discussed among Harvard...
...actual issue now being fought in the Netherlands, he withheld comment, saying only that it depended on how rapidly British and French forces moved...