Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students regret that their professor is 70 years old this year and by a University of Vienna rule must retire. Another rule allows him a year of grace...
...Schwab made a careful speech in which he stressed the necessity of a "proper and economic distribution and selling" of steel products. That was a formula that meant that steel prices must be changed. Iron and steel companies have not been making ordinary profits recently. President Eugene Figgord Grace of Bethlehem Steel suggested to the Institute that because producers have done everything they know to reduce manufacturing costs they might have to reduce wages. U. S. Steel Corp. men there opposed any wage lowerings...
...invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded, bedroom school of literary criticism in his admission that the book had caused his boudoir reading lamp to burn long and late. Perhaps an extravagance, a lack of grace in critical compliments implies a lack of capability in the critic, but in this case the grotesque writhing of reviewers is only in one sense unnatural. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne thoroughly deserves the applause, if not the applesauce, which has been heaped upon...
...praised and it is to be commended for pursuance. The tutors are thus given an added degree of eminence in the mind of the tutee, and the student is given a further opportunity to prove his self-reliance and his abilities for creative work. The saving grace of the whole scheme of both lectures and tutorial work lies in such a mediative policy, for at present the tutorial and needs strengthening and the course requirements need to be made less stringent. The balance between the two methods once attained, Harvard's plan of education will be as effective...
...last name caused reporters to query anxiously, scribble hastily. "Not the Grace Moore who sang in Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried...