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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superior in oratory" depends largely upon what meanings he attaches to those terms. If by "outgeneralled their adversaries" he means that the Boston College speakers succeeded in discussing national prohibition rather than the effects and merits of the proposed repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts, he is correct. If by "marshalled arguments more skilfully" he means that Boston College was able to get away without giving specific, comprehensive answers to pertinent questions, asked by the Harvard speakers, he is correct. If "serious and dignified" refer to demeanor, probably he is correct. I believe that the diction...
...tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit of one of the greatest...
Millions of dollars are spent yearly by the public for dentifrices which have only the cleansing value of soap and water, no medicative value whatever. Strikingly in contrast to its rivals' advertisements have been those for Colgate which declared: ''Colgate's has never claimed to cure pyorrhea, to correct an acid condition of the mouth?things no toothpaste can do. Colgate does claim to clean teeth better...
...year hot water has been provided in yard dormitories in very conservative doses so conservative that many shower enthusiasts have been lead to believe that the hot water tap has utterly no significance other than has an interior decorating device achieving that balanced effect so necessary to the correct bathroom...
...last week arrived Nedo Nadi, the greatest fencer alive. Dressed in his fencing whites, his torso looking extraordinarily long because, in the traditional postures of correct fencing, his back was always stiff, his knees usually bent, he gave an exhibition at the New York Athletic Club. His opponents were Clovis Deladrier, onetime military champion of Belgium, now instructor at Annapolis, and George Santelli, onetime amateur champion of Hungary. As Nadi touched Deladrier's breast with the point of his foil or slashed at Santelli with his sabre, his own mastery seemed to excite him. He talked -rapidly in French...