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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shirts than he can count, and his suits of clothes are said to number 365, all of them eminently visible of cut and shade. Even in his training camp he likes to change his clothes several times a day. He has never lost a fight, nor learned to speak English. He fought at 121 lb. last week. Had he weighed three pounds less he might have been declared bantamweight champion of the world, a title at present unassigned. As it is, he is about three fights away from the featherweight title...
...scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their New York skyscraper, the Americans remark that if only Clavery, the friendly kingdom, were to attack, invade, annex Agravia, Clavery would then...
...There is excellent historical precedent for the "rump" designation. In 1648, when the English Parliament was about to move for the execution of Charles I, the only way to get a majority for such a proceeding was to expel many a moderate member who did not wish for the King's death. After this expulsion, commonly known as Pride's Purge, the portion of Parliament remaining was the original "rump" meeting ?i. e., a portion of the original whole...
...Americans, philosophy-conscious, Keyserling is no new name. Count Hermann von Keyserling's Travel Diary of a Philosopher is considered readable by-many. Hermann's brother Edouard wrote, among other things, Tides, a novel, now translated into English. Will Edouard's novel be as popular as Hermann's philosophy...
Seniors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were advised last night by Prof. Robert Emmons Rogers of the English department to "put on a front." He was a speaker at the annual class banquet at the Hotel Kenmore...