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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This statement is not correct. The Wilmington Whist Club is one of the best bridge clubs in the country. It is a prosperous club and has been operated for many years without playing for a stake or without playing Sundays. The system of playing bridge at the club is entirely one of individual records. These records are tabulated monthly and each member's standing posted by classes at the end of the month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Does he speak it as I was laboriously taught to pronunciation do, - supposedly the "con-sti-teeoo-tional" only or correct as you would indicate, without the fine shading upon the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...without criticism by tutors themselves, lecturers, and tutees that machinery will never be adjusted to perfection. Professor Eaton is quoted as saying that the tutor should endeavor to humanize and unify the student's grasp of his field. Others have made the same remark and all have been quite correct. Unfortunately the results have been disappointing in some respects. The disappointments have been far less noticeable than the successes of the movement; but the former have been and are present, however, and the sooner the relationship of the tutor to his tutee and the relationship between the student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURERS AND TUTORS | 11/3/1927 | See Source »

Henchman Edward H. Kennedy Jr. was reported to have cried: "It has been estimated that there are 15,000 blind pigs in Detroit. I think that is about correct. Each one of those pigs has at least ten regular customers. If the owners will get after those ten customers that alone will mean 150,000 votes for Johnny Smith-enough to put him over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In Detroit | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...reviewer's attitude is correct. In giving the impression of permanence and of unruffled solidity not, it may be said, density the Advocate is acting not only as a vehicle for undergraduate expression but also as a proof of general undergraduate sanity. Under the present board, which is continuing the trend of the boards of the last two years, the magazine is neither lush nor derivative of the worst of Greenwich village...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSE AND SENSIBILITIES | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

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