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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less dull affair, in which one should: 1) try to take two for one or three for two; 2) try to cement the opposing forces in such manner that one's opponent is physically unable to make a move (calomel and dynamite to the contrary, not withstanding), etc., etc. ad nauseam. Some of the innocents think that they should, regardless, set up a strong position in the centre, or that under no circumstances should they break their own king row. . . . DR. DONALD M. GILDERSLEEVE...
...acres pasture 24 acres woodland 13 acres corn 11 acres hay 8 acres wheat 6 acres oats, alfalfa, etc...
...once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
...crossed lines. The varying tones of black, grey and white-there are about 26 tones in the standard half-tone print-are thus laid out in a pattern like a cross-stitch sampler. To each tone a letter is assigned-D for deep black, A for very light grey, etc. On the telegravure typewriters and linotype machines are corresponding characters-big D dots, tiny A dots, etc. A series of code phrases describes a picture line by line horizontally. For example, a line across the forehead in a portrait of George Washington might read "D7B3A6B4C2D8." A fast typer can compose...
Profits from sales of real estate, stocks, bonds, etc...