Word: folding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will shock those who have loved or envied Harvard for its handful of truly great thinkers. But the student of Professor Babbitt who has studied the details of his life-long fight against the drifting artificial culture with which many so-called "moderns" annoint themselves, will realize the two-fold significance of his death. For the world has lost a remarkable man; at once a brilliant teacher and a great warrior...
...opened to settlement on April 22, 1889. By night it had a population of 10,000 under tents. By 1910 it had 62,205 inhabitants, was the State's biggest and most prosperous city. Even more phenomenal was the growth of Tulsa whose 1,390 inhabitants multiplied 13-fold between 1900 and 1910. Score to date: Oklahoma City, 185,389; Tulsa...
...least one phase of the three-fold Curtis empire-the cultural-Brothers Curtis & Gary are walling, earnest heirs. Gary is an officer of the Curtis Institute, as is Curtis who is vice president of the orchestra association. Also Curtis heads, as president, the social Philadelphia Forum (lectures, dances, music) and sits on the Committee of Seventy for political reform. Professionally the destiny of the Curtis regime is difficult to read. Brother Gary is training himself for technical command but it may well be the voice of Brother Curtis that is some day heard speaking his politico-social creed through their...
...illegal. As a result, the class of '32 was unexpectedly compelled to act as host for nearly a hundred uninvited guests. The present graduating class, therefore, may have remembered the disaster of their predecessors in caps and gowns, when they agreed to admit their younger fellows to the fold. This plan is noteworthy in that it disposes of an embarrassing situation to the satisfaction of both parties. Under the new plan, whereby only Seniors and their guests may have refreshments, the Committee is enabled to entertain the undergraduates without additional expense...
...Truth Behind the News," by Margaret Gilman, is a denunciation of the tabloid school of journalism. The attacks on this particular form of literary prostitution have been too frequent in recent days for this addition to the fold to be startling in its addition to the fold to be startling in its originality; nevertheless; it is interesting, and piques the intelligence through its violence. "A Housewife Looks at Advertising" is an article of the same class, though on a subject not quite so hackneyed; due of course, to the dependence of most periodicals on their advertising this fester has received...