Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nationally the satisfaction of Mr. Marshall's demand for a good five cent cigar would no doubt stimulate comment. Locally, the construction of a congenial restaurant might have the desired effect...
...Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan which pointed out the evils of the situation and made shrewd suggestions for remedial rules. When announcement was made that Yale alone took $626,194 in football receipts in the single year 1923, undergraduate criticism was quite as free as professorial comment...
Critics, finding little field for prediction, looked back over the past season, made generous comment. They agreed for the most part that individual voices were "not what they used to be," that ensembles and mountings were better than ever before, that the eleven novelties and revivals, if not notably significant, had served their purpose of breaking the monotony of the standard repertoire. The consensus of opinion was that little had been accomplished for the cause of the U. S. singer by the widely heralded debuts of Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Said Critic Olin Downes in the New York Times...
...questions concerning a student's income and his family's finances, which aroused some hostile comment among the undergraduates, students were asked to check whether their family's income is $3,000, $5,000, and so forth, up to over $50,000; to state their own allowance, earnings, whether they had to work during the summer in order to pay college expenses, and what qualifications they think they possess for the careers they intend...
...Gould won the national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over...