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...Grantland Rice's All-American, much less for the position of right guard." In the plain meaning of this sentence, Bettor Hill was wrong. Bill Corbus was an "All-American guard" on Grantland Rice's 1932 team. Now Bettor Hill says he meant that TIME'S error lay not in placing Bill Corbus but in using the phrase "All-American." Even granting that this is what he meant, Bettor Hill errs. For Collier's magazine certifies as correct the adjectival form "All-American." To Bettor Hill a bill for $86.25. In his own words, "There...
...recognition now safe under his belt, to take sweeping, super-drastic measures of defense against Japan. The best defense, he reasoned, is to make bleak, sparsely populated Siberia so attractive to Russians that they will swarm there with enthusiasm and, once established, fight to defend their homes. The tragic error of Nicholas II was to suppose that he could beat Japan with soldiers from European Russia who could not understand why Asiatic soil 4,000 miles from their homes was worth fighting for. Wiser than Nicholas II, Stalin I plunged Russia last week into the most farsighted and stupendous effort...
...down to the last fraction of a mile per second. Seven years ago he flashed a beam of light between Mt. Wilson and Mt. San Antonio, 22 mi. away, clocked it over &; over, finally announced that light's speed was 186.284 mi. per sec., with a probable error of less than 2 mi. per sec. But while Dr. Michelson never doubted that light's speed was constant in vacua, the air even between lofty mountain peaks is no vacuum. In a valley near Pasadena he had built a mile-long tube of corrugated iron (TIME...
Furthermore you are in error about me writing propaganda from Germany during the War. I was an accredited war correspondent with the German armies and their military allies for American newspapers, which by no means favored the cause of the Central Powers...
...idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn afternoons, may well be led to wonder. Of course, if there is a chance that the law-breaker will reform, once shown the error of his ways, the state ought spare nothing to show them to him. But in a country where a large portion of crime is committed by mental defectives, repeaters, and good business men like the famous Al Capone, there seems to be much unwarranted popular sentimentalism over the man who deserves another...