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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time he was neither particularly "Slim" nor conspicuously "Lucky," and by no stretch of the imagination was he either a "Lone Eagle" or "Flying Fool." He might have been called "Lindy" but possibly that was insufficiently picturesque. At any rate, when somebody corrupted his name into "Limburger" it appealed to the schoolboy sense of humor and was soon abbreviated into "Cheese," which stuck as long as he remained at Friends...
...Both in fitness and in scope it grows as we look at it. The University which is beaten in the Boat Race has been able hitherto to console itself by declaring that to lead on the river has always been to lag in learning. That consolation can now be either substantiated, or blown away as a false and flattering unction to which no man nor society of men would care to be indebted. For many a year Cambridge has sneered at the vagueness of the Oxford mind, and Oxford at the petty particularity of the Cambridge mind: there must...
...have been sporadic in their hitting, and the best hurlers of both pitching staffs have been pounded out of the box by slugging opponents. With both teams at their best, one can predict as close a hurlers duel as there has been in the whole series. With both or either nine in its less happy mood, there is no telling what kind of a score might result...
...those who look askance at newspaper "trusts," who deplore the passing of the individual owner, who do not like to see the advent of the 24-hour newspaper (morning and evening editions), he is first complacent: "In those cities in which I own either all of the newspapers or the only newspaper, the reading public and the advertisers are satisfied that this single ownership has not worked ... to the detriment of the community...
Last week the first of those enterprises both in time and size-the Tokyo Electric Light Co.-offered to sell $121,809,250 mortgage bonds. This is the largest corporate (as distinct from governmental) bond offering and the largest power & light company issue, either foreign or domestic, ever made. And yet investment bankers sought eagerly for allotments. To Japanese bankers went approximately $30,000,000 worth, to British...