Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: More than 50 years ago Charles A. Dana had a writer on the Sun (was his name Cummings?) who was known as the great American condenser. Think TIME has several of them. When Grant was President there was much talk of corruption in Washington. Bclknap and Dent his brother-in-law were the chief ones to blame. The President said "Let no guilty man escape." Wouldn't it be fine if pur President would choose to say as much, instead of entertaining at breakfast such men as -, - and big -*? Oh, for Roosevelt at such a time! JAMES...
...genius, although, of course, Mr. Barton, as everyone else, is entitled to a belief that they will. Analysis of the word "genius" would determine to a large degree the number and character of those persons qualified to merit it. The writers now living whom the majority would grant the title may be counted on the fingers of one hand. One man alone would probably be a unanimous choice, and that one is Thomas Hardy, an Olympian who lingers on, cloistered in the secrecy of an English garden. Beside him how does Miss Loos, how does even Mr. Galsworthy, in spite...
...Rochester, last week, the Philharmonic Orchestra, under Dr. Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music, submitted to a large audience and a jury of six, four manuscript orchestral works of U. S. composers. Pageant of P. T. Barnum by Douglas Moore and Darker America by William Grant Still (Negro) were chosen for publication...
...list of nominations which will appear on the ballot is as follows: for President, Winslow Carlton '29, C. McK. Norton '29, E. W. Sexton '29, and W. H. Wilder '29; for Vice-President, W. T. Emmet '29, J. D. Gatsos '29, F. S. Grant '29, T. G. Moore '29, J. L. Reid '29, and D. C. Shaw '29; for Secretary-Treasurer, Hulburd Johnston '29, John Parkinson '29, and H. F. Schwarz...
...names have already been added to the list published last week. The nominations now include: for President, Winslow Carlton '29, C. McK. Norton '29, and E.W. Sexton '29; for Vice-President, W.T. Emment '29, J.D. Gatsos '29, F.S. Grant '29, T.G. Moore '29, and J.L. Reid '29; for Treasurer, Hulburd Johnston '29, John Parkinson '29, and B.F. Schwarz...