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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agitated last week, is a bit of history going back to 1914: In that year, the Commission was created by Congress. Its business was to investigate complaints made to it of alleged unfair practices in trade (misbranding of commodities, price-cutting to put competitors out of business, etc., etc.)-If it found the alleged practices to be true, it was to issue an order to cease and desist (similar to an injunction). The Commission was to have five members appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate, serving terms of seven years each. Not more than three members...
...photographs of buildings, the Yard, etc., many of which have appeared in other Albums, include a number of new and extremely artistic ones. Here, too, is a new arrangement, and the dormitories are now grouped according to the years in which they were built. For the rest, it is the essential Album, the record of a Harvard generation, of which the Senior alone has the true appreciation. There are minor defects, but not to be quibbled over. And if there is one thing on which the Committee is to be especially congratulated it is the fact that the 1925 Album...
...front of Villers-Cotteré Forest. A strong first line was pushing a German advantage for all it was worth. Of a sudden, a boom, boom, boom crashed in martial notes through the air, followed by the appalling noise of drum fire: boom, boom, drum, drum, drum, boom, boom, etc. Long lines of tanks ambled across the broken lines spittin fire to the accompaniment of the chugging engines. Behind, great waves of infantry bore down upon the enemy who were driven back of Soissons, their communication severed and the battle ended, the first of a final series which terminated...
...time, then ten, a hundred, a thousand. These letters told of the good that the departed girl-nun was doing in her Heaven on earth. There were stories, attested by doctors, priests and numerous other witnesses, of miracles: deadly diseases cured, sinners converted, moral and material help rendered, etc., etc. Never was such a bed of roses prepared for mankind...
...second place, Evolution is no mere guess. Great masses of convincing evidence surround us on every hand. Living animals, prehistoric fossils, such findings as the Java Ape-Man, and the development of domestic animals, etc., show that Darwin's genius was not misdirected. Also, instances are known where we can see Evolution plainly going on, where we can see certain species of wild animals actually changing under our very eyes. Few scientific theories present as over-whelming an array of supporting evidence as Evolution...