Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale does not favor concentration except for honors men. Honors men are allowed to concentrate at Yale during their last two years, because they are regarded by the college as already possessing the background essential before specialization can be undertaken, successfully. But the requirements for a major are so slight that the average man can scarcely be said to have a main field of study on which he focuses. The Yale system rests on the premise that for the average undergraduate specialization in college narrows him unduly, and prevents him from attaining a broad cultural background. It is the purpose...
...Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors, unto death. For these five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling girls of 16, 17, 18, they got jobs to help out at home, learned to paint the luminous numerals on watch faces. Quinta, Albina, and Amelia Maggia thought themselves lucky to find work in the same...
Rediscount Rate became 4½% in all Federal Reserve Bank districts except San Francisco and Kansas City...
...Radio blades possess the keenest cutting edge known to science of Metallurgy?6 for 50�." And American's own superintendent, one Mr. Elflam, testified that "Ever-Ready," "Gem" and "Star" blades were made from the same metal and in the same way?that they were in all respects identical except for name and wrapper. American's lawyers said that all this was ordinary business puffing. All this was enough to cause Judge William Nelson Runyan of the New Jersey Federal District Court to throw out the American Safety Razor's case...
More subtle is the latest story, "Dis-order and Early Sorrow" (1926) in which nothing happens so melodramatic as suicide, in fact nothing at all, except convulsive disappointment in a child's soul. Professor Cornelius looks on complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either...