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Subscriber Taggart's letter is the longest ever printed in TIME-and one of the sanest...
...surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention to become their standard bearer in bringing about a repeal of the 18th Amendment. The sanest thing Congress can do before adjournment is to invite a body of allenists to determine how many of its number should transfer so other lastitutions...
...argument of the opposition that Tennyson wrote, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" on a typewriter is exceedingly convincing although another asserts that nothing but asprin advertisements or "vers libre" is possible. The sanest opinion seems to be that while in some cases; the noise is disturbing the clearness with which the matter is set forth promotes "terseness, clearness and structural lucidity." And it is certainly true that in case where the writer's chirography is immoderately bad, the legibility of type adds to the case of revision...
...truth, its ideals, its traditions, its motto are a religion. God is love. The kindly spirit of Harvard men is not usually seen in other colleges. Certainly not in provincial state universities. I think Harvard is the most religious student body in America. By religious I mean with the sanest understanding of Truth...
...Circular Staircase, which later became The Bat, was a great success, and from that time her progress has been steady. She has never written a failure. That is largely because she respects and knows her tremendous public. Of all our women writers, her attitude toward the war was the sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department of Justice was secret, brave and successful. It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride...