Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual tilt with Yale next Saturday at New Haven. Robert Dutton '31 led the attack with five baskets to his credit, while O. D. Johnson '31, who scored nine points, was the next high scorer. The 1931 aggregation led at the half by a 13 to 6 count...
...nomination like President Harding's, Candidate Willis blustered: "Personally, I have no fear of the results." He knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement...
...Count Giuseppe Volpi, brilliant, suave, self-made Finance Minister, spoke to the Senate, last week, with what he styled "brutal frankness." The Government, he said, had put the lira on a gold basis (TIME, Jan. 2), but it will not go further and issue gold coins. Secondly, the Government will shortly lift most of the restrictions on foreign trading and exchange transactions with private Italian interests. Thirdly, notice is again given that Italy will continue repaying her debt to the U. S. only so long as her receipts from German reparations continue...
During his address Count Volpi strikingly exhibited the fact that there are two opposed concepts of a debt. The first, generally professed by Anglo-Saxons, is that of an obligation which must be met simply because it exists. The second, based by Latins on experience, is to regard the entire voluntary repayment of a debt as a phenomenon both mystical and meritorious. Said Count Volpi...
...Ramon Guthrie it found one of more than ordinary skill. His aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...