Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team, therefore, would seem to have a sound foundation. Figures show that at the present time there are between 100 and 150 men working out in the Hemenway Gymnasium any where from three to five times a week under the direction of Lawrence Conley, boxing instructor. With so much interest being shown, it seems that there ought not be much argument about the advisability of organizing the sport into teams when the Student Council takes the matter under advisement at its next meeting. BY TIME...
...offering at the Keith-Albee, is one whose work we should like to see more often. In a movie whose plot depends upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of today and managed with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features equally unorthodox which should make it attractive...
...everyone knows, Jews are discriminated against in many a leading U. S. country club. Knowing this not to be the case at the famed South Shore club, TIME mentioned it as of incidental news-interest...
...some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average turnover period in charge accounts of some 70 days could be shortened to, say, 40 days, the resultant values in saving in interest charges and by general acceleration of business would run into hundreds of millions of dollars...
Radio Corp. of America owns or has virtual controlling interest in RCA Communications, Inc. and Radiomarine Corp. (communications), RCA Photophone Co. (sound-film recording and receiving equipment), Radio-Victor Corp. (radio sets and talking machines), Radio-Keith Orpheum Corp. (vaudeville circuits and theatres), RKO Productions, Inc. (cinema production), National Broadcasting Co. (broadcasting). Recently it acquired an option on the patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting...