Word: paragraphing
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...still there was good reason on the doubters' side; for the magazine TIME'S founders planned was not a magazine for everybody-and it never will be a magazine for everybody. As you know, there are more facts per paragraph in TIME-more significant, difficult, complicated facts about industry and finance and politics and war-than there are in any other widely read magazine we know about. And no reader can really get full value out of TIME unless he brings to TIME a background of education far above average...
...empty gallon can to a filling station. "Can't do it, mister," said the station attendant. "The gas has to be served in the tank of the car." Henderson: "I know, I know, I wrote those regulations. But they cover emergencies like this." Attendant (unmoved): "Read that last paragraph inside your book." Taxicabbing to his office, Administrator Henderson seized a copy of his 70-page book of regulations, heavily underscored the clause about such emergencies as his, sent the book, with his autograph, to the station attendant. Commented the latter, still unmoved: "I ain't selling...
...word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN SAID CALMLY STOP WE LOOKED AT HER INCREDULOUSLY STOP NONE OF US KNEW HER STOP SHE WAS A STATELY MIDDLE AGED WOMAN IN EVENING CLOTHES AND SHE WAS SIPPING A TALL DRINK PARAGRAPH...
...Poland and the Lowlands, Germany proved that the side with command of the air can operate successfully on the surface. Britain proved it again in the retreat from Dunkirk. In the Battle of Britain, Germany came close to proving Mitchell down to the last paragraph, but failed because she went at the job with too little vision (and too few airplanes) and because Britain took command...
...Lincoln's crony. Because old Medill's editorial declared the need to "denounce all who stand in the way of the triumph of the good cause," the Tribune last week said it expressed current Tribune policy even better than it did 80 years ago. The final paragraph marked a new high in the Colonel's coupon-clipping from the Tribune's Lincolnian inheritance. Declared Medill: "We bid our contemporaries, then, who would rather be victorious over THE TRIBUNE than over Jeff Davis, howl on. . . . We go our own way, at our own time...