Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although this is not one of the debates sponsored by the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League and consequently will not affect Harvard's standing in that, there is considerable interest attached to it. Marquette is always strong in debating, and this year's team is particularly able...
When interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter, Professor Cabot made the following statement: "It is wholly to the interest of the public that some private concern have a monopoly of electric power. This concern is not in a position to exercise its control to the injury of the public. Men who are working for their own profit have, by the very nature of things, more interest in their job than men working for the government." He believes that the power monopoly can and does benefit the people, and this he is confident he can prove this afternoon...
...Contemporary Art showed a restraint which should do much to ensure the success of the new project. By avoiding the sort of sensationalism which shrieks like a spoiled child for attention, those in charge have insured a tolerant attitude from the more conservative of their patrons without jeopardizing the interest of the more advanced...
Members of the New York Stock Exchange last week approved, 782 to 133, their Board of Governors' plan to increase the Exchange membership from 1,100 to 1,375 (TIME, Feb. 4). Since the increase adds 25% to the membership, each present member has a one-fourth interest in a new seat, or, in other words, each present member now owns five-fourths of a membership. The prospective purchaser of an Exchange seat may therefore acquire membership in one of the following three ways...
...studied at exhibitions of Manhattan's National Academy and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy. These perennial shows are more famed for politeness than for pungency, for plethora than for power. There are always innumerable nice landscapes, portraits, still-lifes. Very few of them are incandescent with genius. Interest is in trends and tendencies rather than transcendent individuals. The last National Academy show was ponderously conventional (TIME, Dec. 17). At the 124th annual Pennsylvania Academy exhibition, opened last week, the advanced group was more numerous than in Manhattan, but the squatting conservatives still dominated the wall space...