Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be a wonderful, a marvelous, achievement if the student palaces so dear to the public indignation actually remained palatial for more than their fleeting period of youth and novelty. Harvard has no golden baths, nor did it ever have, but if it had one might safely predict that within a year they would be discovered to be brass. The brief time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight...
...Muspratt, President of the British Delegation, and, in business life, president of the immensely potent and monopolistic Federation of British Industries. Naturally, rubber was the elastic bone of the Robinson-Muspratt contention, for the British rubber monopoly (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926) has forced U. S. citizens to pay dear for tires, hot-water bottles, teething rings...
...Dear General Moncada...
...Floating University has had no dearth of publicity, much of it undesirable. Now that the 500 students and 50 teachers have safely returned the news is slowly circulating that "dear old F. U." was not nearly as bad as it had been painted, that the girls were not such a bad influence after all, and that the students did a great deal besides getting drunk and filling the pages of the newspapers. No doubt many of them returned with a new interest in the affairs of the world, and an understanding of its problems, Perhaps one of that group...
There is small need for alarm Mexico still swarms with dark virile men who love nothing better than mixtures of blood and sand. But, alas, bulls come dear in this era--and seats for the slaughter must rise accordingly. The cinema is cheaper. Therefore the Mexican morale breaks down to the extent of deserting the bull fights for the inexpensive but amusing movies. The national hero is transformed from the person of the most efficient bull artist to that of the reigning screen star, be it man, woman, child or horse. For those who dance must pay the piper, quoth...