Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
Fourteen U. S. universities must now find space to hang 100 pictures apiece. The French donors frankly admit a shrewd purpose behind the gift. They are alarmed by growing competition with German universities. Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered...
...devote their services to public enterprises like the Chicagio Fair. Generous, many of them invariably do so. Their time is usually sacrificed, they receive no payment. In addition, their schemes are often censored by stodgy directors who insist on conventionalities. But Mr. Geddes and the Chicago Fair architects find their task happy, for between them and the men who hold the moneybags is Dr. Allen Diehl Albert of Evanston, Ill., old family friend, collaborator and spokesman of Rufus Cutler Dawes,* the Fair's president. Long a journalist (Washington Times, Columbus News, Minneapolis Tribune), Dr. Albert has, since 1906, specialized...
...their ugliness which would trouble the sensitive visitor. . . . [They] are out of place as the symbols of a bygone hatred. . . . They are of the stuff that is offensive to humanity and dangerous to peace . . . should be removed from the stronghold of academic freedom. They may well find a resting place, if resting place it is necessary that they have, in the memorial chapel about to be. The new chapel, it is averred, will not honor in its halls the Harvard War dead who were so unfortunate as to perish on the Teuton side. The Sargent murals are in keeping with...
...been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might be, no man can guess but experimenter Keesom may yet find...