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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme into practice; the interior struggle has been decided another way. You may take exception to the scene on the mountain and to one or two others in which superficial events have been slightly diverted as concessions to what is believed to be popular taste. You cannot take exception to Jannings' acting. He does a thousand things that only someone who knew a lot could think of, showing you how life worked out for that burgomeister. The picture itself is silent, but a musical accompaniment adds to its beauty. It was written by two Russians, Victor Schertzinger and Nicholas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...control the loans from corporations. For the loans from corporations were not really credit, but capital-''capital saved by individuals and business firms, a wholly different matter." The Federal Reserve Board may be able to tell banks what they can do with their credit, but it cannot tell individuals and corporations what they can do with their capital. Thus Mr. Simmons on loans to brokers, and soundly thus, in so far as there is undeniably a real difference between loans from banks and loans from corporations. But whether it is legitimate to push that difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Capital v. Credit | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...then that extraordinarily clever little people the Japanese who invented the lantern that bears their name, how well they epitomized the fragility of human happiness. Be careful to get the pretty paper things inside before it rains for their colored loveliness cannot stand the rigors of our sharp New England climate. But after all they have lighted the queens of the May it only for a night. And wasn't it Ted Lewis who first said "You shall be King. King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND IN THE FIRE OF SPRING | 5/18/1929 | See Source »

...main function of the tutorial system is to allow the student contact with specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPORT TUTORS | 5/18/1929 | See Source »

...said in part: "While those of us who have been denied the opportunity of a college education are deeply appreciative of the high standard of training which Harvard has set for Massachusetts and the country, we nevertheless cannot but be offended at the supercilious and insulting references which too often emanate from the university. It was not so long a time ago that a prominent professor of Harvard made slighting and flippant references to another section of our city, and now the Harvard Crimson, whose editorial columns have so often of late displeased a vast number of the alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentlemen! Gentlemen! | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

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