Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Lewis Mumford was born in Flushing, L. I., so late as 1895. He attended Manhattan universities, pursuing science and pedagogy. His contributions to a wide variety of publications culminated in an associate editorship on the Dial. Since 1920 he has edited the Sociological Review in Eng land. He acknowledges an "intellectual debt" to Professor Patrick Geddes of India and Edinburgh, whose work in synthetics (making science, especially biology and geography, serve society in town-planning, education, etc.) he began investigating and studying, by letter, in 1916. Already two Mumford books have wide fame: The Story of Utopias and Sticks...
...Chicago never came off. The western city, not long ago, was looked upon as the intellectual center of the United States. But in spite of the fact that several famous writers claim it as their birthplace the actual percentage of the American lit Mr. Mencken says that the dial is turnerary world living in Chicago is smalling toward the south and quotes names to prove it. But Mr. Hansen's argument remains invincible in at least one point--publishers cheques are drawn on New York banks. Other delights may pass from Manhattan life but this economic necessity remains...
...music editor to military expert, on various newspapers. His military experience in the years of the war included service as special correspondent from the British from and membership in the U. S. Army. More recently he has been Associate Editor of Collier's Weekly and Managing Editor of the Dial...
...Print Room at present is an exhibition of recently acquired facsimiles and photographs published by The Dial in 1923. There are paintings in oil, water colour, and tempera, drawings in crayon and pencil reproduced so miraculously that under glass it is impossible to detect them from originals. Picasso is there, Bonnard and Matisse, Vlaminck and Signac, and the Americans, John Marin and Charles Demuth, three of whose watercolors the Fogg acquired several years...
...writer supported Dial in 1924 but supported Smith this year. In justice to Mr. Dial, however, we will state that while in this campaign he apparently hoped for some support from the Blease following, his normal appeal and his usual strength (which is small) comes from the conservative, business class of folk. On the stump, he cannot, to any degree, approach the campaign style of either of his opponents this year nor of his opponents two years...