Word: centedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...song published by somebody else, they get no royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that...
...transfer to the College may do so as late as the end of the second year, with full credit for what they have taken in the Engineering School. This has proved to be an advantageous arrangement for the students, and saved much unhappiness and waste of time. Twenty per cent of those who have entered here, so far, as Freshmen have thus transferred. Similarly, those who first enter the College may there take the studies of the first two years of one of the engineering programs. Many do so and transfer to the Engineering School after one or two years...
...considered essential to the effectiveness of these new services and the significance of the study. Replies to the questionnaire sent out by the Alumni Placement Service will be made comparable to returns of these older surveys and will be published in the CRIMSON. As over 90 per cent of the classes from 1923 to 1926 responded to the questionnaire sent out by the Committee on Choice of Vocations, the significance of the comparisons thus made will depend upon the extent to which the Class of 1930 participates in the study...
...coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem for scientists...
...dogs are conveniently discovered to be racing hounds, in addition to their other accomplishments, and they save the day for their benefactors by winning the race upon which has been staked every cent of all parties concerned...