Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matches to the luminaries of the opposing team, Yale's Ryan and Luce, Penn's Stanger and Lavine, William's Wolf and Chase, N. Y. U.'s Harte and Tarangoli as the case might be. But meeting the same men paired in the doubles matches, the Harvard team would come back to capture two or three of the trio of dual contests, to the same pairs that had originally quashed the Crimson players individually...
...women before Radcliffe, the collegiate education of women was regarded at the time of the college's foundation as a rather visionary proposal. The good will of the Harvard faculty had been won in 1878, to a considerable extent by the work of Miss Abby Leach, who had come to Cambridge and taken private instruction from Professors Child, Goodwin and Greenough in English, Greek and Latin respectively. Her sound scholarship (she later served as a professor at Vassar) leveled many objections to collegiate instruction of women...
...history of Reparations is a history of international misunderstandings. In the years immediately after the war many of the delegates could be accused of wilful blindness. And in this blindness the Germans have often been foremost. With all the good will in the world they have come into conferences, and through failure to understand the other fellow and an unfortunate habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time have brought down the wrath of the Allies upon their heads...
...million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found its own public among people who read newspapers only for thrills and will gladly dispense with the news if the thrills come fast enough. And now, since the Stock Market has become of interest to the People, it is Publisher Macfadden who provides the People's Stock Market paper...
...based, not on an attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about 17%, manufacturing and transportation about 28%. Greatest increase has come in per capita production, which increased 35% between 1922 and 1925. Consumption, however, has had little difficulty in keeping pace with production...