Word: cater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When questioned as to the future of the moving pictures Mr. Courtenay said: "The movies will never displace the legitimate stage, because they cater to a different class of people. The taste of their present public will keep down the general quality of the movies, although of course there will always be men like Griffith, who will produce pictures of such a quality that everyone will wish to see them...
...increase in revenue, China cannot hope to have peace within her borders. The Central government needs money to as set its authority over rebellious Tuchuns (Provincial Governors), and brings under her wing all military organizations. If, on the other hand, the present situation of the Central Government having to cater to these organizations for revenue, continues, then one may look for a continuance of semi-anarchical conditions...
Moreover, it is impossible for the government to carry out its proposed financial reorganization--the most important provision of which is the abolition of the odious Liking (internal customs duties)--when it must cater to just those authorities which owe their luxurious positions to them. During the period of weak Central Government these duties have increased to an enormous extent, and they are now paralyzing all the agencies of law, order and prosperity in the country...
...Third Floor).-R. H. Bowles '24, G. E. Atwood '24, W. L. Garrison '24, W. A. Gordon '24, B. A. Cater '24, A. F. Birch 1E.S., J. L. Benall '24, C. H. Morgan...
...golf, or some other un-allied subject. The newspapers seem unwilling to bear the expense of securing expert writers and sending them to various preliminary games which will qualify them to write an accurate account of the proceedings in a big game. I see no reason why anyone should cater to the parsimonious or unscientific methods of the newspapers regardless of how loud they may howl. Some of the stronger exponents of the suggestion are teams who are urging it for distinctly selfish reasons. What heed, in turn, should be given them...