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On p. 38 of TIME, Oct. 18, in your discussion of ceramics, you quote Roman Pliny -"Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora." The citation is as apt and as moral as the quotation itself, but I must blush for your translation-"more sacred than gold, and a damn sight less harmful." Such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

But from the standpoint of correctness in either spelling or proof reading, the word is "cames" meaning H-shaped lead strips, serving much the same purpose in stained glass fabrication as do muntins in ordinary wood or steel windows.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

According to The Oxford English Dictionary, "calms" and "cames" have the same meaning. Since U. S. glassmakers prefer "cames," TIME herewith adopts it.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Died. Colonel Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, 58, senior partner of G.M.-P. Murphy & Co., World War U. S. Red Cross Commissioner and lieutenant colonel in the A.E.F.; of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1921 Grayson Murphy laid the foundation of his financial reputation by skillfully reorganizing Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

"Living Realities." After asking whether the Five-Year Plan was a success Eugene Lyons answers: "For whom and for what? Certainly not for the socialist dream, which had been emptied of human meaning in the process, reduced to a mechanical formula of the state as a super-trust and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: 20 Year Success? | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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