Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sport. Blues and half-Blues must be awarded. We suggest (since the head is here chiefly concerned) a blue tassel to the mortar-board, and a blue-and-white tassel for a half Blue. If Oxford dallows women to compete, the Blue will naturally be in the stockings. The design of the half-Blue in this case we do not presume to suggest. The London Times...
...Coolidge denies this. In two paragraphs of his Memorial Day speech at Gettysburg, he cast aside the conclusions of the expert psychologist and criminologist, to avow his faith in the existent American machinery of justice. There might be grit in the works, but the design was good, and the wheels would revolve in silence when chicanery and flummery among judges was cleaned...
Under a bright cover of appropriately aquatic design, the pages of the current "Briny Deep" number of the Lampoon offer a half-hour's entertainment to those seeking relaxation after toil during these last days of preparation for the approaching examinations. But Lampy's readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy...
...either to odd coincidence or bitter design, there has been a tax fight between wealthy Senator Couzens of Michigan and wealthier Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department, since 1925. It was a fight over Senator Couzens' profit tax on his shares in the Ford Motor Co., which he sold in 1919. Last week, Senator Couzens won the fight and the Treasury Department lost perhaps $2,000,000 in refunds to Senator Couzens and eight other onetime Ford stockholders...
...number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy & Min Gump became world figures and the Tribune Tower was built (Col. McCormick chose the site and Capt. Patterson suggested the $100,000 contest for an architectural design). This April, the Tribune won another great victory when it led the attack that smashed the Thompson-Small-Crowe-Smith machine in the Republican primaries (TIME, April 23). To the victor belong the boasts; and boast the Tribune...