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...such creatures indeed exist, they are certainly mere "women" and should have no place in a magazine for the home, school and family, such as TIME. "Brazen" is the good old fashioned adjective which I would unhesitatingly apply to the picture of the "Dolly" or Deutsch sisters with which you illustrate the story to which I object. No doubt you are right that they seem "worth while" to old King Christian of Denmark, but why give such "women" any place in TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, that is no reason why our descendants should not exist. Perhaps the earth will be unable to support quite so many people as now, perhaps fewer will want to live on it. Mankind, three million times as old, may be three million times as wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of the Earth | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...size, then, is the placing of false emphasis on extra-curricular activities in order to obtain social honors. By the present system, the successful become enslaved by their jobs and the rest have no chance to contribute to the life of the College, a condition which did not exist when Yale was smaller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE OF "OLD BRICK ROW" DAYS NOW BURIED UNDER INFLUX OF MODERN EVILS | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...attributed to politically dead men. Thus the fact that the Secretary of the interior and the Attorney General then in office had been accused of receiving bribes for favors rendered was of no great concern to the present leaders of the party's destines, but corruption does not exist in isolated instances and successive revelations are bringing the guilt nearer home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OIL CANS | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...offered to build a bombing plane, powered with two Liberty motors, that would have a speed of 183 miles an hour fully loaded with bombs, machine guns, and crew. The Government laughed at this Sicilian dreamer, although he always lived up to his promises. Incidentally, the plans still exist today and Col. Chamberlin believes that the ship, if built, would "outperform any bombing plane now in the possession of the Army or Navy of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Back-Fire | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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