Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your story on models and advertising, you say that "by the end of World War I . . . they found that endorsements by real people . . . were astoundingly successful sales plugs...
...George Bernard Shaw waited until 1903 to say: "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it" [TIME, Sept. 19], he ought to have given proper credit for it to Oscar Wilde...
...reading that Pope Pius had decorated [William Randolph] Hearst, for "civic qualities, comprehension of spiritual values, and devotion to humanity" [TIME, Sept. 26], I gave up on the human mind and decided henceforth to take all my problems, spiritual and otherwise, to the new electronic thinking machine. I must say, it didn't do too badly on the first test to which I put it; when asked to compute the odds on the infallibility of a pontiff who could thus reward the unspeakable Mr. Hearst, it ground out the answer in jig time...
There was much more. But in effect what Churchill had to say was that abundance does not come to a country that tries to have economic equality by fiat. If Britain wanted prosperity, let her vote the Conservatives back...
...symptoms of constitutionality. A number of civic and political groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...