Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article on Mr. Baker is the type of newsmagazine material which makes TIME entirely distinctive. Thank you for getting it for us. Then, the discussion of hypnotism shows your versatility. I wouldn't have missed it for a whole lot ; yet, where could I have read it except in TIME ? or some scientific work intended for professionals ? Your first DEPARTMENT OF FASHIONS is delightful. I didn't vote ? both the babies had colds about that time ? but my sympathies were all with "the one hundred." I hope they are as pleased...
From Governor Young came word to cease firing, except on any fugitives trying to scale the walls or swim the river. At midnight, having meantime ordered the guard doubled at California's other big "pen," San Quentin, Governor Young reached Folsom in person and learned how things stood. A mass attack by 700 troopers, preceded by tanks, was planned for the next morning...
...outstanding fact revealed in the interviews was that the Reading Period will be adopted in a thorough-going manner by the department of Romance Languages in all except the elementary courses. Both instructors and tutors are carefully outlining the Reading Period work to the students, and will not be available at any time during the Reading Period...
...Maryland" falls disappointingly short of the expectations raised by reports from New York. This failure is possibly due to the favorite theatrical trick of sending a different cast to Boston or else the reports were fictitious. At any rate there is nothing to commend the show except an average good musical score containing two really excellent turns, "Your Land, my Land" and "The Same Silver Moon...
...Except for Colonel McCranie, in which part Rufus Hill is everything that a Southern colonel ought to be, the cast is composed entirely of negro actors who accentuate the distinctive quality of the play. Thomas Moseley fills the difficult role of Abraham, the ill-starred hero of the piece, with credit, while the minor characters introduced as back-ground or as comic relief are so natural and at times so amusing that it is difficult to find any point in which improvement might be suggested...