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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This month's Advocate presents its wares in a typographically much more appealing fashion, especially in the departments of editorials and book reviews. The editorials in the Advocate have always had something to present other in the way of suave innuendo or of righteous exaggeration, and the book reviews were usually competent, but not clever, but one suspects that the unbroken columns of the editorial pages and the unbelievably microscopic print of the reviews presented too little attraction to the eye to tempt the reader from skipping. In the current issue, however, the editorials and reviews are made unusually attractive...
Despite Mr. Chalufour's remarks on the subject of "grub-grumbling", there is much to be said for Mr. Gowney's complaint. Two years ago, when we were inmates--if I may use the word--of the Freshman Halls, the food was generally prepared in a very poor fashion. Save for a few standard dishes the articles on the so-called menus were uniformly badly cooked. I do not mean to say that they were unwholesome though memory of certain cream puffs still lurks in my mind and in those of others as well. The food was probably both wholesome...
...Rotor Ship (TiME, Nov. 17)?or Sailless Ship, as it is more commonly called?has set the scientific world agog. Early reports were entirely misleading. There is no question of capturing the energy of the wind by means of a windmill and transmitting this energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck, 18 with...
Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend...
...voiceless actors who will elegantly posture and grimace on the stage, one of unseen singers, who will yodel from a pit, concealed with the instruments of the orchestra. Said she: "Why should a man be exhibited on the stage, throwing out his arms and legs in the. stilted fashion of bygone times just because he can sing? For my opera, I want good actors on the stage good singers...