Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeker for archaeological information in China," says the account of Mr. Warner's recent trip, "follows any clues that come his way, and generally finds that they lead, not to the promised Tang masterpiece, but to some modern atrocity. The expedition went up many of these blind alleys, but one morning it stopped to look at some caves said to contain ancient carvings. The cave turned out to be one of the most important finds of the expedition...
...roads in China," continued the account of Mr. Warner's journey, in reply discussing the external nature of the country, are, as has been said before, the last word in bad construction. In fact little or no construction is evident. When it rains, the sunken tracks become actual rivers of mud. Across the desert roads are practically negligible. The Gobi desert is itself an immense expanse of sand and rocks stretching over what seem almost illimitable distances. Out of the more or less even plain of the desert, huge, weather-worn cliffs that tower up perpendicularly as for instance...
Vacations are like beautiful ladies both rare and fleeting, especially when one has a bank account of eight cents, owes three and must eat some time. So I can remember very distinctly just what happened the last week of classes. There was Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected...
...Eaton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy has been appointed to make a study of the theory of knowledge in its relation to logic and metaphysics, principally with Professor Husserl at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and also for the writing in English of a critical account of Professor Husserl's philosophy...
...minute inquisition into the habits of the Yale undergraduate was in the student time chart. This, covering a full week, was designed to account for every minute of the day and night and for every conceivable occupation. In fact, scholastic work was only a fraction of the total. Among the non-athletic organizations the student was required to account for his work in connection with publications, dramatics, musical clubs, debating, religious, Y. M. C. A., Class committee, student council fraternities and societies...