Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the eyes of Lola carpenter we can follow the various affairs trials and tribulations of a small group of stage people which spiced generously with humor is very entertaining...
...inherent virtues of the sport have made it popular; so much so that last year 1,350,000 persons paid to see games. The organization of hockey resembles that of professional baseball except that, rather than an arbitrary distinction between two leagues, there is a real distinction between two "groups" of a single league. The teams play intergroup games during the season; at the end of the season the leaders in each group play each other, the two second-place teams play each other, the two third-place teams play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second...
Into the boiling-pot, traders poured facts, reports, rumors. Among them: ¶ The Brothers Fisher of Detroit, owning more common stocks than any other U. S. group, will form a billion-dollar investment trust to hold their securities. In Manhattan, the mighty Bankers Trust Co. will help finance the holding company. ¶ Alfred Emanuel Smith, vacationing in the South (see p. 9), has agreed to head the $50,000,000 bank now being organized by John Jacob Raskob and many another Manhattan capitalist...
...confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view, undistorted by philosophical sophistry, or modes and trends, contemporary life...
...hoped that this exhibition of collegiatism will not go unheeded by the group of anglo-philes who point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite...