Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tactfully, Dr. Cook disappeared for a while. After bobbing up in Europe again, he decided that it would be more profitable to appear on U. S. vaudeville stages. Then he went among the wildmen of Borneo, and later settled in Texas with his eyes on oil. He had a theory: "A consolidation of bankruptcy companies with dry wells would produce a solvent company with flowing wells." The experiment fleeced a few hundred credulous souls out of $4,000,000 and put Dr. Cook in the penitentiary in 1923 for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Since...
...realize the ancient connection between China and the west; that trade between Greece and Korea throve in the first century of our era; that in 1307 Pope Clement, V. constituted Pekin an archepiscopal see in favor of a missionary Franciscan: John of Montecorvino, or that purely Mongolian types appear in some of the Sienese paintings of the thirteenth century...
...certainly the most effective and sweeping that has yet come from an official source. There are undoubtedly many difficulties in the way of its application. President Hopkins has recognized them and it would serve no purpose to discuss them specifically until the full details of the Dartmouth program appear. Suffice it to say, first that Mr. Hopkins and his associates have spent many months on the formulation of the proposals published yesterday, second that good faith on the part of any college adopting so sweeping a reform is to be presumed and will obviate any such objection as that...
...indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city grown up on the brown stone ashes of the old Borough." Apart from the dream introduction, there is nothing in his story of crooks, policemen, and the misguided poor, which could not appear fittingly in the more widely read periodicals of the country...
Everyday there appear on the newsstands new, gay-colored magazines with pictures of pretty young ladies gracing their covers, Daily there arrive also fresh stocks of somber, dignified-looking periodicals with a position and wild-eyed, excited magazines with a Cause...