Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several times I have been on the verge of writing to TIME to ask if it would be possible to follow the names of great men or places unfamiliar to schoolchildren with the pronunciation. This would be very helpful in a class where TIME is used for current events, for if the pupil is uncertain he asks teacher-and who is he to know the correct pronunciation of a Chinese General's name, a Nicaraguan rebel's name, a famed War Minister of France, a potent German financier...
...order hath changed and that all roads now lead to the Phillips Brooks House. Hither wend their way perplexed Freshmen seeking information; artful upperclassmen seeking Freshmen Handbooks, and vexed graduate students seeking rooms. Hither soon will turn the thrifty seeking text books at small expense. Soon will follow the hungry their mouths watering at the thought of refreshments which follow the receptions for Freshmen, Graduate students, Law students and others. More leisurely will amble those of high intent to volunteer their time and effort for social service, for deputations, for public speaking and other activities. Sooner or later, most students...
...every movement of the meter has a meaning all its own, that cobblestones and hills increase the distance in dollars and lessen the distance in space, and that the longest way round is the shortest way home. for the pedestrian--for who is not? there is always the river. Follow the river, says the oldest settler, and one can't go wrong. Such may be the case but neither can one arrive at any definitely placed objective. And so, in the end, the adventurer is stranded by his fireside, alone with his books and his memories...
...Revue du Vrai et du Beau (Review of the True and the Beau-tiful), French art journal, wrote under a reproduction of "Exalta-tion" as follows: "This artist has a distinctly individual manner in representing people and objects, and uses the brush to symbolize the sentiments. In this he is at times a little literary. . . . Pavel Jerda-nowitsch is not satisfied to follow ordinary paths. He prefers to explore the heights and even, if necessary, to peer into the abysses. His spirit delights in intoxication, and he is a prey to the esthetic agonies which are not experienced without suffering...
...issue visited with Governor Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, (TIME, July 11), men came from Manhattan, according to the Chicago Journal of Commerce, asking that Governor James B. McDougal of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank initiate a movement (which the other banks might ostensibly follow), to reduce the general 4% rate to 3½%. If money could be borrowed cheaply in the U. S., it could be loaned with profit abroad...