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...invariably refer to it as the Civil War. a term we have been taught to avoid, but one which most people employ; even most Southerners...
...extended. After a study of the question in its various phases the committee reported, and in April, 1919, the Faculty voted, that general examinations should "be established for all students concentrating in Divisions or under Committees which signify their willingness to try such examinations," and that they "be employed for the members of the present Freshman class." Thereupon all the divisions under the Faculty, except those dealing with mathematics and the natural sciences, decided to make the experiment. Some of them did so reluctantly, with misgiving, and under a condition that they should not be obliged to employ tutors...
...were scarcely pleased to learn that Italian public works will be pushed through the winter as a most "exuberant industry." Less an economist than a politician, 77 Duce has decreed the building of $130,000,000 worth of bridges, aqueducts, public buildings and roads on which he expects to employ 300,000 men or nearly one-third of all Italians now unemployed. All over Italy last week so-called Fascist "spaghetti clubs" were open again. Here, as last winter, indigent Italians may eat of the Dictator's steaming bounty...
...third floor there was a huge Christmas tree, loaded with celluloid ornaments. Price tags on every table called attention to Shirokiya's bargain day-the managers are proud of the fact that they were the first store in Japan to adopt the one price system, now employ 1,300 people. There was a short-circuit in the Christmas tree. Flames crackled among the celluloid ornaments, then jumped to a counter piled with celluloid toys, which exploded. The building was fireproof, but its rotunda made an excellent chimney. From the third floor to the roof roared a mushroom of flame...
...producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking. So they harp on the title of the show, "Rain", and employ it in the manner of a theme song. To think of the amount of worth-while atmosphere created in the play by keeping the 6000 horsepower rain-making machines going at top speed all the time, is essentially, to laugh. It rains so hard during much of the film that...