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Word: commenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibitions it is intended to give a more or less critical and in any case authoritative discussion of the subject by some one fitted to do so. In this way it is expected that not only will the various museums and the libraries receive more just and intelligent comment, but also that those interested in the matters which the column will take up will be furnished with a clear and sound criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW COLUMN | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

This was the chief comment vouchsafed by the leader of the English visitors at Harvard yesterday afternoon. He was very much gratified when he was informed that Harvard Square abounded in wielders of the brush and shine cloth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Britishers Annoyed by Lack of Shoe Polish and Polishers--"Cutting In" at Dances Seen as Dangerous | 1/11/1928 | See Source »

...which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that in periods of stress and strain it increases to such an extent is noteworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEARINESS TO THE FLESH | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

When the smarter trains of the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific lines moved out of Chicago last week, there was that about them which roused racial comment. Above the tidy uniforms of the club car attendants there shone, not the usual smiling Negro faces, but twinkling Oriental faces, the faces of twelve young Chinamen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Club Cars Only | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...host. Samuel Insull, James A. Patten, Alexander Hamilton Revell, Julius Rosenwald, Melvin Alvah Traylor, Silas Hardy Strawn, David Robertson Forgan, Walter Ansel Strong and many another potent, eminent, Chicagoan sat down. And Mayor William Hale Thompson sat down too. He was the guest who caused the most comment-social comment outside of Chicago, because few non-Chicagoans realize that Chicago's "better element" have not only tolerance but affection for Mayor Thompson; political comment everywhere because Mayor Thompson, undoubted controller of the Illinois delegation to the Republican Convention, has been reputed an enemy of the Dawes-Lowden presidential boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Guest | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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