Word: reading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply meals to dining cars), and from hundreds of people who want to work for him or sell him something. Says he: "I can still hardly go anywhere but somebody doesn't say, 'I saw your picture in TIME.' I never knew so many people read TIME...
...Bogotá, Colombia, received a letter from us inviting him to subscribe to TIME'S Latin America edition, which is printed in English. Recently we heard from him as follows: "When I received your offer ... I was just starting to take English lessons and I could not read the letter. Now that I can I am anxious to get a subscription . . . and so would like to know the new rate...
...Frenchman living in Paris sent along the following note with his subscription renewal: "One of the strongest reasons I have for reading TIME, aside from its American viewpoint on world affairs, is that . . . when I read it I feel as if I were in America with its freedom and its wide spaces - a freedom we have lost in Europe and the space we never...
...after day, while Mrs. Truman lazed and read detective stories, and Margaret, a photo fan, experimented with her four cameras, the President concentrated on swimming, sitting in the sun and taking long afternoon naps. He got up early, as usual. One morning he teamed up with his naval aide, Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, beat Clark Clifford and Dr. John R. Steelman at horseshoes, 21-9 (the President got two ringers...
...hitting a professor with a baked potato. If he had missed the professor, it would have been considered part of a normal fight. In 1766, the disapproval took the form of the The Great Butter Rebellion, which was only quelled when the Corporation requested the Royal Governor to read the Overseers' resolutions and enforce them, which fortunately occurred peacefully. Several years later, the Rotton Cabbage Rebellion occurred, which was settled without outside...