Word: bertillon
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Especially when the glass slipper is made to such definite specifications as Mr. Pulitzer's. Most patrons who give such prizes seem quite unable to do it without various qualifications. And, no adequate Bertillon system having yet been invented for literature or the drama, these qualifications ? except where they concern matters of ascertainable fact, such as the citizenship of the author, or the year of a play's nativity ? must, in general, be dodged when the time comes for the award of the laurel wreath. Very sensibly, too?but, why have the qualifications in the first place? Could...