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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not followed the situation closely are compelled to recognize today-with distinct surprise, perhaps-that agriculture is . no longer the dominant activity of the South. Manufacture has outstripped it and the value of mineral products is high. . . . Mississippi and Arkansas alone among the southern states show a higher value for farm products than for manufactures and minerals...
Captain Goos tried to haul up the American Girl, too, but gasoline ran over her hot engine, took fire. The flames shot into a towering pyramid, higher than the rescuing ship. An oil tanker avoids flames. The American Girl was abandoned. Said Miss Elder: "It was like watching an old friend drown...
...discount rate decreed by the Federal Reserve Board has had two effects: 1) to cause U. S. capitalists to send gold out of the country to foreign countries where a higher yield is possible; 2) to cause foreign borrowers to come here and take gold credit out of the U. S. where it is cheap. In either case the gold is going...
...spell had been broken: Their enthusiasm had been self-suppressed in its spontaneous state, in the cause of sports-manlike conduct--not to insult their opponents with a contempt for the victory. A Harvard football scalp is still a cherished prime in Hanover, though not to be valued higher than a tradition of courtesy...
...presidents, sometimes as both, have made major contributions to the development of colleges and universities which now enroll more than 128,000 students yearly, and on whose faculties are to be found nearly 8,000 teachers. Of the 184 colleges and universities which rank highest among American institutions of higher learning, more than one-third at one time or another, have been presided over by men who have received Yale training...