Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture, The Woman Who Needed Killing, he called in advertising spreads which had cost a lot of money and renamed it himself. That any woman should need killing seemed to him an indictment of womanhood in general, perhaps of motherhood. Adolph Zukor would not stand for anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with his brother. Clive Brook does not kill himself after all because he finds that Mme. Baclanova's perhaps necessary...
Correspondents of U. S. newspapers returned to their hotels and commenced typing articles for future release, explaining how the delegates of the Second Dawes Committee, although they failed to reach an agreement, did great service by filing complete reports with their governments explaining just what the ultimate claims of the various nations were...
...winner by a close decision, was Eligio Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than he can count...
...only available comparative scores are those of the games with Union College. Union defeated Yale 7 to 5, while Harvard was defeated by a 9 to 1 count. Although this would seem to give Yale some edge, the fact that the games were played early in the season and the Crimson players have been improving steadily ever since would discount any slight advantage. Yale's season has not been very successful...
...always accessible, to keep him in contact with both students and men capable of giving advice. It does not seem absolutely essential, however, either that he conduct research or that he be a retired business man or that he have had experience in a great number of fields, although all these things are desirable. The adviser's ability to talk to students understandingly is his prime requisite...