Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...June 9 number of TIME you have an article, "Primary and Pupils," in which you display a carelessness with facts that causes one to wonder if your articles are usually so lacking in reliability. You state in the next to the last paragraph: "Responsibility finally filtered down to Professor Kirby who innocently said...
...mass of grist flowing daily through the New York Herald Tribune's copy desk, beginning next week (July 1), will be one telegraphed sheet immune from the copyreader's darting pencil. A chaste headline may be scribbled at its top, neat paragraph marks made, but nothing else. Rendering this piece of copy sacred will be the line: "By Calvin Coolidge...
...said that he found Rogers' remarks "not only humorous ... but illuminating." In 1919 he published his first book. The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference, which contains his famed quip: "It says in there [the Peace Covenant] 'There is to be no more wars.' And then there is a paragraph further down telling you where to get your ammunition in case there was one." Worth more than $2,000,000, he plays polo not badly, earns $750,000 per year...
...devastating paragraph the whilom Lord High Chancellor revealed that Scientist Haldane is a man with a past, a past in which he once obscurely wrote these damning words: Any paper on pure science becomes the property of the whole world the moment it is published...
...This book," declares the author in the first paragraph, "is a deliberately restricted and selective treatment of an inexhaustible subject." It is addressed to the aggressive feminist who in the upward swing of woman's reaction from the past attempts to find a place in man's field of activities to the detriment...