Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full shock of the news could only be felt by Real Old Yale Men, because the Real Old Fence, which enclosed the Old Campus, was broken in a class rush in 1879. Onty two fragments of that original three-rail barrier are now extant, Photographer Pach's and a section in the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter house. Yale undergraduates could only realize that no Yale team captain can be properly photographed except sitting, with his hair brushed, on Photographer Pach's fragment. Photographer Pach announced that he had been offered and had refused as high...
...production figure will hold for 1930 and 1931 as well as for the present year. Head of the General Conservation Committee which worked out the A. P. I. program is Ralph Clinton Holmes, President of Texas Corp. (Texaco products). A potent and rapidly growing "independent" (i.e., not a fragment of the dismembered Standard), Texas Corp. in 1928 sold 26,744,806 barrels of gasoline. an increase of 36.5% over 1927 and during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company (Standard of New York...
Simple, yet highly colorful and very effective settings form a piquant surrounding for the songs and pantomimes offered. The Russian scenes are mixed with such bits as "An Eighteenth Century Fan", "Fragment of an Etruscan Vase" or a rollicking Dutch travesty...
George Moore, celebrating his 76th birthday in London, last week, announced that he had burned the original version of his novel, Aphrodite in Aulis. Shrewd, however, he had saved enough of it to make a fragment for Vanity Fair (March issue). He said he was rewriting the novel entirely: "I missed the architecture the first time and every thing in every art must have architecture. . . . After Aphrodite in Aulis is finished I shall write no more...
...apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type, to possess a fragment of the 18th century...