Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is steadily improving. . . . Your summary of the two dominant points of view at the Havana Pan-American Conference is clear and accurate. I find myself more and more dependent on TIME for the news. My reading of the daily newspapers is nowadays usually limited to glancing over the table of contents in my morning and evening paper. For the real news I wait until TIME comes, and then read that carefully. In this way it is possible to keep up with the world's news, and to make the most of the little leisure I have for reading...
Though out of politics and in cinema in 1923, Mr. Hays felt that he should help "clear the deck" for the impending Coolidge campaign by assisting the G. O. P. to pay off a $520,000 deficit remaining from the Hays-managed Harding campaign. He asked Sinclair to contribute. They agreed that $75,000 was all Sinclair should give. At the same time, until other contributions could be solicited, Sinclair volunteered $185,000 more, to help make the G. O. P. books seem balanced. The money was delivered in one bundle of Government bonds and the total...
...some reason not altogether clear, it has been found desirable to reintroduce prohibition into the New York public schools, as a subject for study. From the age of six pupils are to be instructed in the art, science or habit of prohibition. It seems that an education law of twenty-five years ago first made provision that prohibition should play a part in the life of every school child, to the obvious and praiseworthy end that he might become an intelligent and sober minded citizen...
Though nothing may become the college life of a Senior like the leaving of it, it is still clear that the competition for Commencement speaking parts affords others than Phi Beta Kappa men opportunity for a last gesture. Many traditions that have no justification, even as adornment, in the swift life of a busy university may sink to a deserved death in the Lethe stream, but that one of the fine appurtenances of the student's farewell to his college should fall into innocuous desuetude is a condition to be deplored, and remedied...
...Manhattan, Mrs. J. Stuart Tompkins read of Jacqueline, was piqued into bragging of Boulderwall, her Great Dane house dog. Never permitted to bark, Boulderwall's lips have learned to fashion sounds to the pattern of human speech. Intelligent, she answers simple questions in a voice that is clear, and high-pitched...