Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Commencement only a month a head, business firms have been applying to the Student Employment office in University Hall for students to fill permanent positions. The openings afforded are in firms ranging from insurance and banking corporations to fruit and sugar producers in the tropics...
...Boston, New York, and Washington; security analyst in New York City; insurance audit solicitors, in New York City; chemical administration or sales, in New York City; label and carton company, in Brooklyn, N. Y.; Office and bank fixtures company, saleswork; cotton mill manufacturing; moving picture field, general administration work; fruit and sugar production in the tropics; and electrical manufacturing, in La Salle. Illinois...
...Significance. Something of a Satyr himself, Author Douglas has long contemplated the absurdities of man and man-made gods. The fruit of his three score years of contemplation is a brilliant exposure of those gods, pointing to the irony of the fear they are able to rouse in man. His leisurely narrative is rich in satire and delicious humor, which may easily be misunderstood for meaningless, if somewhat lickerish, drool. But even the most matter-of-fact reader will envy the bright existence led by Douglas' creatures, and be charmed by his prose...
...their part in the political life of the nation brought the members of the Democratic Club together. Their convention tonight and tomorrow will be a jovial and lively climax to months of serious discussion and earnest work and the platform which is adopted will be the chief fruit of their labors. It will be a sincere expression of the opinions of Harvard's politically minded, progressively inclined students...
...harsh sentence of the court might be construed as giving grounds for suspicion that the judges of the case sought to punish him not for the moral qualities of this, one of the first fruit from his pen, but for his revolutionary proclivities in general. This youngster in the field of literature was indeed beginning to regard himself as a martyr, so unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding...