Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of Stevens and his assistants, which was announced about September 1, has received favorable comment in most quarters. The concensus of opinion is that the new coaches will standardize the style of rowing used by the University, the 150-pounders, and the Freshmen, so that a system will gradually be developed and shifts in the eights each year will not cause as much friction as formerly...
Sept. 8, Secretary Hughes published the entire correspondence without comment...
...National Review (British conservative weekly) printed this sour comment: " We regard a game at which the players never get out of a walk as unworthy of an athletic nation and as a miserable exercise for able-bodied men in the prime of youth and health and strength. There are few more depressing spectacles than that of a large crowd of the flower of both sexes watching two Herculean youths lying on a putting green endeavoring to ascertain the easiest means of poking a stationary little ball into a relatively large...
...Miners' Reply. "A step in the right direction," was the miners' comment on the suggestion of a 10% wage increase. But they urged that it not be given a percentage basis because that would give the smallest actual increase in wages to the men who are already making the least money. They asked that men employed by the day be given a definite increase in dollars and cents...
...extreme stand he is doing so for political effect" Warren T. McCray is known as a brother-in-law of George Ade (humorist) and a raiser of prize Hereford cattle.* Since 1921 he has been Governor of Indiana. The fact that his personal finances became shaky therefore aroused some comment. He called a meeting of his creditors and promised them dollar for dollar liquidation. The amount of his liabilities is not known, but his assets include 15,000 acres of farm land and $500,000 due him but unpaid by those to whom he sold Herefords...