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...Readers Hornbeck and Dedrick reflect that the Finn's ammunition (for an old pistol) would not fit the Russians' automatic pistols, 2) that if the dead Russians had any ammunition on them, it would not last long, 3) that captured material is not the property of the soldier who captures it, but of the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...bring such a suit. It will be well-night impossible for him to disprove the fact that mass reviews, and the dispensing of canned knowledge have involved unethical practices and have had a harmful effect upon Harvard education. If they have not been harmful, if they do not reflect upon the integrity of a Harvard degree, then Harvard is not the institution three hundred-odd graduating classes have thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBEL! | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...passed through that ailment once, and later when I was sober enough to reflect upon it I blushed purple for being so foolish. Now I know this for a fact that you will not stick to that first girl. As your contacts widen, you will meet someone "better" and then you say she is the for you. You will keep repeating this until you have crushed many flowers on your path to flame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...committee of deputies visits quiet Verdun. In a scene of delicate comedy they are given the run-around by officious officers, reflect dazedly afterwards that if the famed Citadel of Verdun really only contains four field pieces . . . perhaps they should have insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vols. XV & XVI | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...they are an excellent gauge of the trend of inventories, for businessmen customarily borrow when they lay in larger supplies of raw materials, customarily pay off their loans when they let inventory run off. In order to keep purely financial transactions from unduly influencing the Index-which aims to reflect general business, not merely financial conditions-the turnover component for financial centres like New York and Chicago is kept separate from the turnover component for trade centres, and the two are later combined giving the turnover in trade centres, and much more weight than that for financial centres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Index Year | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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