Word: etc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperity, they point with pride to the surplus in the ordinary budget; when they complain of some untoward action on the part of another nation, they refer to the deficit in the extraordinary budget. Thus, despite the much-ado over Italy's financial recovery, budgets which balance, etc., the real position (as shown by the estimates for 1924-25) is, according to Ugo Ancona in the Giornale d'Italia...
...This picture shows a group of men that work in one of W. R. Hearst's New York City pressrooms. The work is hard and noisy, and you can't keep 100% neat and clean among the ink rolls, handling freshly printed papers, etc...
...been advanced. They do seem to be of a magnetic nature and to produce electrical and atmospheric disturbances on the earth at certain periods. Professor Tchijewsky, a Russian scientist, has recently come out with a theory that at sun spot maxima, worldly affairs are excited and wars, revolutions, migrations, etc.. break out. He thinks he has traced definite cycles of such historical events in the 19th Century paralleling the sun spots. The purely fantastic character of this conjecture is obvious; the problem of the physical influence of the spots is by no means solved...
...Yale is now complete and that at Princeton nearly so. To their other inquiries they have now added a tentative question to find out whether a sufficient number of men would be interested in forming a club for those who are interested in Scouting. Since the organization, program, etc., would be matters for the promoters of the club to settle, this was all that Headquarters could do in the matter since they had no definite information which they could give out with the inquiry. The cards are being returned via the Boston office to New York headquarters where they...
...true source of the danger is that the commencement speech has become a habit. Its subject, its method, its technique is not changed to meet altered conditions. The flimsy subterfuge, "at no time before the youth of the country, etc," falls, for it too is habitual. The oldest living graduate, should his memory only serve him, would enjoy the familiar flourishes and fancies, the admonitions to develop character, industry, leadership, which he knew so well...