Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COUNTY OF NEW YORK RAY LONG, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am the Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and, as such, negotiated for the preparation and publication by the Cosmopolitan Magazine of the manuscripts by Calvin Coolidge. To the best of my knowledge and belief, every line of the manuscripts by Calvin Coolidge which have been delivered to me by the ex-President and which have been published in the Cosmopolitan Magazine was written by Mr. Coolidge himself. In fact, from my personal knowledge, I am able to state that neither of his secretaries knew of the existence...
Tariff. Great was the agitation last week in Canada at the prospect of an in crease in U. S. tariffs, particularly on farm products. Last year the U. S. sold Canada, its best customer, $916,000,000 worth of goods, mostly manufactured, buying in return some $489,000,000 worth of Canadian exports, chiefly wood and paper ($237,000,000), fish and meats ($88,000,000), farm products ($57,960,170). Loud was last week's talk of raising the Canadian tariff in retaliation. Premier McKenzie King called for "cool heads" in dealing with these international economic matters...
...though to prove to the world which has called her "America's Sweetheart" that her talent does not share the tawdriness of the phrase, she turns her difficulties to assets, brings vividly to life the southern smalltown coquette who liked one fellow too well to suit her father. Best shot of any talking picture to date - Mary Pickford telling a lawyer what she thinks of her father after he has shot and fatally wounded her lover. In 1897, Mrs. John Charles Smith, a widow, ran a candy counter in a fish store in Toronto. Getting a job, later, with...
...flying school* and suggested that some light plane manufacturers would gladly give planes to well-organized college units for the sake of the free publicity and advertising the gifts would engender. President Loening clapped his approval to the idea but begged off from applications for his big amphibians. For best college flying activities he has put up $5,000 worth of prizes...
...advantages of the come and go tradition in the Dean's Office are numerous, they are not, however, great enough to offset the undesirability of it becoming definitely established. Such a situation is all too likely to cause the loss of those who are by nature and training best fitted to remain for a longer stay in University Hall. Nothing could be more unfortunate than that some man eager and able to continue in the Dean's Office should be prevented therefrom by the bogie of custom. The fact that the custom bids fair to arise more from inadvertence than...