Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formation of the college baseball league in which Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania have accepted places has caused some comment on the independent attitude always maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...
...wind", says the age-old proverb, "which blows nobody good," and the Vagabond was once again struck with the truth of the words when, in the course of his daily perigrinations he came upon a most diverting bit of comment. Curiously enough, it was dated FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Washington, Stipulation No. 339; and was in brief an agreement to prohibit the printing of fraudulent advertising...
...latter's wrath at finding his paint box exhausted in the interests of embryonic art. Such attention must be significant whether deserved or not. It was not so long ago that the long, long haired sister expressed a preference for the military buttons of the soldier boy. The present comment is at lest an indication of the fact that the same benevolent attention is bestowed upon the irresponsibilities of the big brother. Fortunately or unfortunately, circumstances have intervened to absolve him of his guilt, since the participants referred to in the above scornful condemnation were not Harvard...
...migrated to Vermont. But Mr. Coolidge now owns the homestead at Plymouth, he accepts the name Vermonter-so I feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these premises and qualifyings, may I comment on the "Great Mystery" (TIME, March 18). You tell your subscribers that in the plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan Magazine is printed, "numerous compositors set portions of an article that were 'meaningless fragments' to them." I have read this "On Entering and Leaving the Presidency...
Anyone who has ever read an editorial by Signor Mario Carli, personal friend of Signor Benito Mussolini and editor of the arch-Fascist daily L'Impero ("Orders is Orders"), will recognize his characteristic style in the following comment on a football game played last week in Vienna...