Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover. To Colonel Thad H. Brown of Columbus, Ohio, and anyone else who cared to read it, Candidate Hoover wrote a letter. The language was clumsy here and there but the meaning was clear. Wrote Candidate Hoover...
Assistant professor Fields made it clear that television is not a new invention. There has been much activity in this field in recent months. The recent transmission of photographs of the moving figures of such notables as Herbert Hoover from Washington to New York is evidence of this fact. There is a great distinction, however, between such a transmission over wires and one over the radio, as was first completed from London to a town near New York. It is true these images were crude and rather imperfect but images none the less. The shifting shapes of first...
...past week in a cours.e in English literature at the above college, the professor wishing to give an example of Edward Gibbon's (1737-1794) characteristic masterful writing in his 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" turned to TIME and read several selections. He compared the clear, concise statements in TIME with the writing of Gibbon, bringing out that the style which characterized Gibbon's writings may be found in the present pages of TIME. . . . ABRAHAM S. ROSEN...
...sword! Our little one (gesturing at the bull, now beginning to charge) will die when you return. . . ." Charged the bull-deftly drawn by Fortuna's flirting rain coat away from the crowds and toward a stone wall against which horns scraped as the master leaped clear. Eight times this sport was repeated, on the rough, treacherous street. Then Fortuna's frenzied amigo arrived, panting, to proffer him a sword. "Too bad, my little one," cried Fortuna to the bull. "We should have met fairly in the ring. . . . So! . . . So . . . ," and he withdrew a dripping sword...
...into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea of the "educational merits" of the schools outside the social register...