Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the case of M. Pierre Weber, who has taken as personal affront the remark of M. Rostand, fils, that his play was vile and did not contain a single amusing word. Whether or not the young author's anger was aroused by the first or the second of the allegations is beside the point. In any event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible...
...fact, the following list should contain matters of interest for almost everyone...
Doheny built oil storage tanks to contain fuel oil from the Elk Hills, Cal., field for naval consumption...
Admittedly the plan is one to enthrall imagination. For some time acquaintances meeting in foreign capitals have remarked that the world is after all, a small place. To contain the tourist whom travel has broadened until he is loquaciously expensive, who gives critical lectures, or pokes things derogatorily with a cane, the world is indeed too small. For him is such a trip designed. But before he and all his ilk can be bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system...
...curricular activity available in the University. There are two very good reasons for this seemingly strange fact. In the first place it has always been the belief of CRIMSON editors that difficult forms of activity are eminently worth while in themselves, and that a college like Harvard will always contain a num- ber of men of a sufficiently adventurous spirts and virgorous nature to respond to the call of the admittedly difficult. The CRIMSON does not attempt to conceal the nature of its competitions because it wants only those men who are willing to undertake the hardest possible form...