Word: quiteness
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...leap in flood from its channel at Memphis and lash cross-country to a new sea mouth somewhere in Florida, the chaos and horror would be as indescribable as they were in China last week when the mighty Hwangho River finally made good its threat (TIME, July 22) to quit the channel in which it had flowed since...
...home ground was Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, the only moneyman who sold a major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming...
Only a few years after Colonel Otis acquired the Times his eye had lit on an aggressive, cool-headed circulation hustler named Harry Chandler, a young fellow-Yankee from New Hampshire who had quit Dartmouth to go West for his health. Harry Chandler married the boss's daughter, was soon high in the saddle as the Times's general manager. From this vantage he looked with considerable anxiety on his father-in-law's savage enmity toward union labor...
...Childless, deeply fond of his Boston Bull and Sealyham, he has simplified his life so that his daily column can be, and is, his consuming interest. He has rejected radio offers as fat as $5,000 for a few-minute broadcast because he feared his column might suffer. He quit drinking long ago, likes lots of candy and indulges a passion for loud clothes which first manifested itself at the age of 8 when he pedaled a velocipede down the streets of Gallipolis,* wearing a plug hat. He once brought 16 bottles of perfume from France for his friends, kept...
...handwriting on the extortion notes was Lelia's, held up enlarged specimens to prove it. Two of the jurors could not read or write, but with the rest they brought in a verdict of guilty, condemning Lois Thompson to 30 days in jail. Shortly thereafter Daniel Shaw, having quit Northeastern State Teachers College forever, was well out in the Pacific...