Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the roof of the CRIMSON building the sun looked like a new moon. At breakfast tables and on the way to examinations a frequent comment was to the effect that the phenomenon was "not half as effective as any moonlight night...
State. Secretary Hughes' resignation, and the announcement of Ambassador Kellogg's appointment (TIME, Jan. 19) remained the object of much comment. Here is a collection of reasons assigned for Mr. Hughes' resignation...
...thoroughly delightful essay on "Books" Emerson makes the very pointed comment that "Meanwhile the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and, I think, no chair is so much wanted." Anyone who has penetrated the barriers and has seen the stacks upon stacks of volumes in Widener, and has, like Emerson, computed the hours it would take him to read the books in even one corner of that mammoth collection will recognize the present truth of this half-century old observation. In other matters Emerson often had a prophetic insight. So far the remedy...
...paper. In 1903 he became connected with the "Boston Daily Advertiser" and the "Evening Record." With the latter he remained until 1921, acting as its editor during the latter part of that time. Since 1921 he has been with the "Herald", writing a daily column of political and editorial comment which has attracted much attention...
...other advocates of simplified spelling in the U.S. -namely, that of making a whole people unlearn the teachings of its childhood. Last week's issue of Science (news pamphlet for scientists) contained comment by Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution(Washington, D. C). Said...