Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marks of the Engineering School has recently completed a new edition of the "Mechanical Engineers' Handbook" first published in 1916. The original edition became known as ho "engineers' bible", and more than 65,000 copies were sold. Dean Hughes '94 of the Engineering School when asked to comment on the book said: "It is the best book of its kind ever written...
...Josef Capek, who has collaborated with his more famous brother, Karel, in the authorship and production of all his plays, including "The Makropulos Affair", is a cubist painter of note. His cubist stage designing for the production of Shelley's "Cenci" in Prague was an innovation which attracted worldwide comment...
...attend the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, and write his impression for a news agency which guaranteed not to cut his article, and to give it circulation in over 600 daily newspapers, he saw an opportunity to preach a sermon. His report of that encounter was widely read, and provoked national comment, for among the charges he brought against the exhibition were that it was founded on fraud and dishonesty, and that it was similar to the gladitorial fights which debauched the Romans and ruined Rome...
...Although the new rules do not make any sweeping change in football, I think they are very good," was the comment of R. T. Fisher '12 on the changes and additions made Saturday at the annual session of the National Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. "They should make the game even more interesting by speeding...
...Their heart is all right, and they mean well, but their judgment is not very good" was Fire Chief Albert Tait's cryptic comment when asked his opinion of the undergraduates' activities...