Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives the Navy $316,000,000 for the fiscal year of 1928. Of this sum $19,808,000 will be used for naval aviation, $450,000 is allotted to begin the construction of three new cruisers. The last item has been steadfastly opposed by the President; he made no comment...
...Ashton, Idaho, Earl Kimball of the government mail service won the eleventh annual U. S. dog derby, a much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
...another, it seems doubtful whether the new Intercollegiate Press Service, as now conducted, will accomplish much in this direction. Issued weekly, it cannot hope to distribute news items with the promptness that makes them valuable, and news that is not of immediate interest is usually useful only for comment. Thus the whole service must virtually become a sort of Baedeker for the editorial writer. And if an editorial staff is incapable of making its way successfully without a guide, it is doubtful whether it could use one to advantage. At best it would be difficult to preserve individuality...
...even greater opportunity for the vagabond, when the Glee Club gives its second concert of the year in Symphony Hall, with Dusolina Giannini as guest artist. It is hard, when looking over the club's program, to know where to begin in singling out individual numbers for special comment. Perhaps one of the most striking is a composition "Ave, Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads...
Professor Wiener will speak on Tolstoy with especial comment on his "Lucerne" at 2 o'clock today in Sever...