Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social service convention of the Phillips Brooks House Association, to be held at 7.30 o'clock tonight in Peabody Hall at the Phillips Brooks House. The conference is intended to bring together all men in the University who have an interest in social service and to give them a clear idea of the work carried on by the Social Service Committee. Refreshments will be served after the speaking...
...wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked out after ten seconds. Actually, Tunney was down 14. Tunney insists that his head was clear after the first few seconds and that he could have risen within the first ten seconds; that, grasping the situation, he waited for the extra respite to arise stronger, steadier...
...great deal of clear and not a little convulsive thought has gone into the initial number of this quarterly, the presence of which is being bruited about in the better bookshops from Brattle Street to Willoughby Street in London. One cannot dismiss it as another transitory emulation of the Parisian expatriates, although that group is the indubitable fount of its inspiration. Certainly it is not a periodical for the layman; rather is it one of the arts and for artists, or those who aspire to become artists. But it is too well made up to qualify as merely a fleeting...
Significance. The picture is clear enough: two nations glaring at each other over the tops of their high tariff walls. There is no dispute as to the right of France to erect a tariff wall as high as that of the U. S., or even higher. The problem is one of expediency. The U. S. sends many things to France that, on account of superior production facilities, cannot be duplicated so cheaply in Europe. When there is no intent to protect home industry, if the policy of protection must indeed be pursued, it would seem a signal lack of judgment...
...sights of Paris. And immediately those sights began to take on colorful decorations. From base to summit the Eiffel Tower would be a blaze of electric lights. And forthwith the Champs Elysees began to erect two chains of bulbs, six inches apart, from the Arc de Triomphe clear down to the Place de la Concorde. Far more than 100,000 extra electric lights will be used in la ville de lumiere on this occa-sion?perhaps the most brilliant occasion of modern Paris...