Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justice to the "big brother" let me hasten to add that there were exceptions to this wholesale disappointment. Girls getting $12 or less per week are reported to have received a half week's extra pay to gladden their Christmas. This munificent consideration was extended to all $12 employes (it is reported) except one girl in the insurance department who was consoled by the explanation that the insurance department was not really a part of the paper and was at most only temporary. . . . A. LOWEMANN...
...case, Mr. Hughes risked almost nothing by voting for "publicity," since the Conference agenda was already limited to asbestos issues and could not be changed to include dynamite, except by a two thirds vote...
...have spent this last year working under all the dictators of Europe, except one, and the contrasts of my experiences in Russia and Italy are most interesting. In Italy you have one man and the police facing the entire population, which, beneath the surface is hostile to them, and in Russia all three forces work together...
...well over a dozen years since the Japan Society of New York got together a number of important Japanese works of art in a special exhibition. Since that time there has been no chance in America to see such things except in the comparatively monotonous form in which they are set out by the few museums which posess them. Mr. Charles Baine Hoyt's loan collection, just opened at the Fogg Museum, is therefore of more than local interest. Three rooms have been devoted to a pleasantly sparse distribution of potteries and paintings where even the laymen must...
...means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents now and then. Penn State (so far removed from civilization that even the Pennsylvania Railroad can play tyrant with its hears no voice from afar except in Sunday Chapel, when occasionally a minister from Altoona and even Philadelphia may lecture. And it seems that any opportunity that would enable students to listen to the greatest of their own faculty ought to be welcomed by that body...