Word: advent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Educational methods, constantly shifting with the advent of new outlooks on life, are changing so fast that scholarships endowed for a definite course of study in one decade may be obsolete in the next. The St. Johns' plan introduces a novel system of study at college. There is a new field now opened up for those donors who are willing to give scholarships without any restricting stipulations, and who are willing to open up a limitless field of knowledge to those who are able to make advantage of the opportunities offered...
...Greek and Fine Arts, who has been assembling a special collection of movies gathered for the last few years for the significance of the art exhibited in them. The pictures to be shown are mostly ones made in the period before 1926, just before the beginning of the advent of talkies, at which time the silent drama had reached a high point from an artistic point of view. At the present time Professor Post is adding certain of the talkies of his collections, if they are exceptionally good...
...Three Live Ghosts" now playing at Loew's State is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable talkies we have been privileged to see since the advent of that form of motion picture. The story of the play, unfamiliar to but few veteran theatre-goers, is skillfully and subtly handled so that its transformation to the silver screen is attended by virtually no loss of appeal, dramatic or human...
...Evans, onetime (1924-1928) Secretary of State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. He became also a director of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., Lord Melchett's British counterpart...
...From 1866 to 1920 he made real beer-drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock to get pure water for his product-sold more than 1,200,000 barrels per annum-employed 800 men-refused 40 million dollars for his business in 1912. Shocked, astounded at the advent of Prohibition, he turned to near-beer as a makeshift, continued to hope for a return to the good days. He died, 92 years old, in 1927, left in his will a clause asking his heirs to carry on his business, and, "if legally possible [to carry...