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It has occurred to the Vagabond in his odd moments of musing on this and that and things in general, that the impressions of things which are gained during childhood continue to tinge one's thoughts even after they have proved to be wrong or mistaken. True enough this is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/10/1927 | See Source »

I have just read TIME, Feb. 14, and hasten to correct what might be taken as the wrong impression of our attitude toward farming. I do not believe that farming is "obsolescent foolishness," neither do I think, nor have ever said that the farmer "ought to be put in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

The plan was immediately suggested to organize a Floating University in China and have five hundred Chinese students visit the University people in the United States. It would act as a complete refutation of the impression that there is any general anti-foreign feeling in China.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASTERN STUDENTS MAY TAKE CRUISE WESTWARD | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

Sirs : I believe I must have been the old gentleman" whom Mrs. Charles Phipps (TIME, Feb. 14) recently saw on the subway reading a copy of TIME. Perhaps, however, I may set her right in the mistaken impression that I turned and spoke to a stranger at my side about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

"That sounds like saying, 'My relations with .the rats are friendly, and I have put poison in the kitchen to prove it.'" All this was a very good joke. It meant that 95% of the U. S. citizens who heard about the King's speech at all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rogers-Brisbane Version | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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