Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negative ? The positive is shorter, clearer and better. 'May I not ?' is less handsome than 'May I ?' 'I do not think' is a weak substitute for 'I think-not.' 'I choose not to be a candidate in nineteen twenty-eight' is a sentence of good English. But it would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety of the nation." If Senator Fess quoted President Coolidge exactly in the statement, "I will not be nominated," Dr. Van Dyke...
Senator Walsh's speech on "Some issues of the 1928 Campaigns" will be given at 8 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union, and will be open to all members of the University. Mr. Walsh is now engaged in drafting eight legislative reform measures for presentation at the next session of Congress, and the principles of these may be introduced into his talk tonight...
Each club consists of eight men, and is divided into four pairs for the preliminary arguments. The men of each pair first speak against each other, then different pairs prepare cases for presentation, and finally the clubs send their representatives against the other clubs...
...presentation of the lumber industry as one of eight major business enterprises to be studied in Business Policy 12 this year, the Business School has obtained the cost records and full operation data of a lumber firm in Seattle, Washington, and will have officials of the company come to Cambridge as speakers. The firm, whose name is withheld, has been undergoing heavy financial losses in a period of great building activity, and a study of this paradox, with an effort to solve the problem, will occupy the students in the course for the next month...
...Jonson. There is no necessity to justify, as he attempts, fictionized biography; the public has accepted it as its best communication with the past. The Ben Jonson we have here is a lovable, disgusting, Falstaffian figure who drinks, slops, fights, sweats, writes lovely lyrics. One hundred and fifty-eight well-printed pages suffice to give his life in its entirety. If the style is not so robust as Jonson, the conception is brutal enough. Jonson is rare, rare as a century plant; rare also as a beefsteak. Author Steele, aged 20, lately studied under Professor John Erskine,* of Columbia University...