Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daddies. As many chuckles as there are children. The story is negligible, churning out farce and romance by turns arbitrarily. It can be summed up thus: Five bachelors who adopt eight war orphans-one of them a grown girl (Mae Marsh)- are equal to one love affair, plus a dozen spankings. This being the era of the child on the screen, audiences laugh incessantly at the bumptious brats before licking their...
Sherwood Anderson is an enigmatic figure in American letters ; for there are critics of equal note who find in him little more than vague, abstruse, some what vulgar meanderings. There are those who consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned...
Each year the modern man contrives new methods to meet the rush of a civilization so much newer than himself, and with almost every invention he gets a half-hitch on progress and pulls himself up a few degrees to a more equal footing. The history of the world, the outline of science, digests of the world's humor, even the recent "Outline of Everything" show more or less the same tendency--the attempt to gain much in little. Even the newspapers cater to the general desire to understand all about the universe before breakfast. And the large reaction lurking...
...practice which will start immediately at the Longwood covered courts. The team will be chosen from the squad of ten who were selected on the basis of their showing last fall to practice at Longwood. For the final University team, however, all the candidates will have an equal chance...
...Observatory time, Western Union time and perhaps others--but Memorial time is none of these. In-deed, the Memorial clock has the distinction of keeping not even it's own time consistently. Gaining twenty minutes in three hours is a world's record which not even Jules verne could equal--but ordinarily, from day to day, its little variations do not exceed five or ten minutes...