Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being one of those wistful and perpetual prospects against whom the "Own Your Own Home" campaign is directed, we read the National Real Estate Journal with thoughtful care. It seems that the ultimate word in salesmanship, according to the current issue of the Journal, is to "reduce sales-resistance by analyzing your buyer's library." If he reads Harold Bell Wright and Zane Grey, solid comfort and respectability are his first requirements, but if his library contains Conrad, Henry James. Balzac, and De Morgan, the salesman must use the utmost discrimination, as his desire for a distinctive home with beautiful...
Many, doors around Harvard Square were locked with extra care last night and many tired students found sleep did not come as serenely as usual. There were many who were openly scoffers, asking jocularly "Wonder when the Crime will start printing on yellow paper?" but when night came with all the terrors of darkness, these same ones, anxiously tested the strength of their rope fire-escapes. And this is not strange, considering the scare headlines in yesterday's CRIMSON, for the prospect of being thrown from a curtained taxi-cab into the Waldrof after being treated with tar and feathers...
...impression I do not care to leave with a reader is the ides that huge sums of money are being spent for military purposes at the present time. On the contrary the United States now has more military equipment than she requires in time of peace. Only enough guns are now being manufactured to satisfy the demands for experimentation and testing...
...Sisters of Charity was modeled after the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent, France. The Sisters embrace Charity, in whose arms they live and die. They vow chastity and bind themselves to obedience. They care for the sick and poor. Their dress is black, covered with a short cape. Their white muslin cap, with a crimped border, has a black crepe band, is fastened under the chin...
...only real danger has been from a fire caused by rubbish in the basement and this will be taken care of by the new springling system. This system is now installed in Harvard, Sever and Austin Halls and also in the Universal Museum...