Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have reported for social service at the Phillips Brooks House. Descending from a peak of over four hundred in 1921 to half that amount last year, the number dropped this fall, according to Mr. McTurnan, the social service secretary, to 160 men. Despite all that has been done to interest students in work that is said to pay richly in human experience, the thirty-five settlement houses in Boston and Cambridge which depend to a great extent upon Harvard for their volunteer workers are handicapped by a lack...
...Work Done. Last week the U. S. Representatives...
Musically speaking, she had not "done it." To the musically intelligent, it mattered little that 22 years ago Grace Moore was just a little thing in a muslin dress, lisping "Rock of Ages" in a Tennessee Mountain Church. They confined their attentions to the voice which Grace Moore, 27, used to sing Mimi in the special performance of La Boheme which served for her debut. They stamped it as fresh, smooth and appealing, but small, often insecure, often unfaithful to pitch. Her acting, utterly uninspired, was satisfactory by reason of its simplicity...
...Lawn Tennis Association came out of conference in Chicago with the scroll of honor for 1927. There was little question about the head man and leading lady. As he has done since 1920 William T. Tilden, 2nd, placed first in the ranking list of U. S. tournament tennis players. Helen Wills, struck from the 1926 list by appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans...
...answers were various and somewhat unsatisfactory. J. Campbell White, General Secretary of the League, pointed out that church members had reached a point in working for foreign missions beyond which they should not go until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied...