Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zander the Great concerns the efforts of a young woman to restore a foundling child to its father. She gets a clue and takes the child to Arizona where the father is conducting business as a prosperous bootlegger. The woman (Alice Brady) decides that such a man is not fit to bring up the child, and resolves to marry her old suitor from New Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung...
Jess has some weeks ahead in which to solve the problem. If he fails to fit his ancient frame for a respectable showing, Luis Angel Firpo has been signed to substitute at short notice...
...each of the other divisions of the elective pamphlet, courses already exist which serve as satisfactory introductions for men who can afford only one year of study in that field. History 1 and Philosophy A both fit this need. English 28, for the student who wants only one course in literature, is planned ideally, and the fact that it is to be open in the future for Sophomores as well as Freshmen will more than double its usefulness. In all three of these courses there is a common advantage: the different phases of the subject are each treated...
...paper pads, but slates. Competition is emphasized; the clever rewarded; the dull punished. And, more than all, there is Professor Thomas. Admiral Goodrich would reproduce the system as well as may be without the Professor. He would weed out the unfit and set them to their proper tasks. The fit he would educate to greater fitness. And throughout the process he would select and choose and apply, avoiding as he would the devil the folly of "trying to make high-speed tools out of pig iron...
Dedicated to the Duc d'Orléans, "Philippe VIII" of France, Head of the Bourbon-Orléans House "qui en mille ans fit la France," the Action Française appears each day. Every morning at an early hour the Camelots, generally young students of the Université de Paris, sell the paper to all and sundry. Besides this there is now quite a large newsstand sale, and it is, of course, supported loyally by all the Royalist Party in France...