Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of drinking and gambling are virtually non-existent, smoking is permitted in barracks and weekly "hops" provide for other needs, but punishment is sternly administered for such offenses as "making public display of affection with young lady at skating rink about 5:10 o'clock thereby causing unfavorable comment from visitors." However the purpose of West Point is to develop, not to destroy initiative, and that it is successful the capability of our regular army officers bears testimony...
...tragicomedy of the stock-ticker. Trenchant satire aimed at those for whom business is "health, religion, friendship, love" is the core, "The Henrletta" is well above the level of melodrama, and hence there will be no burlesquing of maudlin morality, but rather a serious rendition of serious social comment, on the theme that has since been dwelt upon by Lewis, O'Neill, and others...
...scientist's comment on longevity, tobacco and alcohol...
...Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...
When asked to comment upon the Pension plan, a University Hall pension authority issued the following statement...