Word: account
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fiction: Scholem Asch's "The Nazarene" is a fine and compelling account of the life of Christ, occasionally marred by the somewhat unnecessary framework. . . . As for Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," we are silent and abashed. Let him who can think of a better category for this experiment in language classify it for himself. . . Lin Yutang's "Moment in Peking" offers a glimpse into the world of a Chinese whose views on himself, life and the Occident have gained him a wide following. Don't take your preconceptions about the novel form with you into this novel. . . There's always John...
...year are due tomorrow, December 14, at 5 o'clock, in Room 2, University Hall. A student who falls to hand in his card on time, whether he expects to be in College or not, will be liable for a $5 line. No extensions will be granted except on account of illness...
...Fesler's young basketball squad hits the roads this week and tackles formidable opposition in the Bruins of Brown University and the Cardinals of Wesleyan. In both games the Crimson hoopmen will take the floor as underdogs, but they are expected to give a good account of themselves in each encounter and will gain valuable experience...
...extending (or, in sociological jargon, "extrapolating") into the future the trend line as charted up to the present. Last week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like the death rate statistics of insurance actuaries, who are also social scientists- hold good for large numbers of subjects...
Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...