Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith had the support of Dr. Clarence E. Macartney of Pittsburgh and of other uncompromising Presbyterian Fundamentalists. Dr. Speer declared that he would not accept election unless it came as a "call," by acclamation...
...struck accurately without reference to other countries, or when these direct balances can be taken as a criterion of the actual trade positions of these countries. The world has become one market. It is a vast composite of many sections which, to suit our political convenience, we call empires, nations and countries but which, in fact, in so far as trade is concerned, have been welded together by the developments of recent years in those two fundamentals, transportation and communication." By those few words he set to naught complaints of South Americans and South Africans against U.S. tariffs...
...wish to second Mr. Fry's suggestions about the proposed dining hall. May I add the recommendation that in consideration of the present laboratory and noon class schedules, the hall might well open for lunch at a quarter or half past eleven? I might also call attention to the fact that a matter of a few cents in the price of each meal might make a large difference in the proportion of students who would forsake restaurants to eat at the hall. Henry B. Brainerd...
Died. James E. Butler, 77, famed 12-year-old "Drummer boy of Shiloh," who answered President Lincoln's first call for volunteers in 1861; at Franklin...
...film opened the new Manhattan playhouse of a serious-eyed little group who call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...