Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earliest of our collectors to gather the choice and alluring volumes of the great Elizabethans. His judgment was excellent and he had a vivid understanding of this golden period, equalled by few scholars: He did not hesitate to lend his finest volumes to any student who showed an intelligent interest in English literature...
...awards were founded by Edward W. Bok in 1923. This year marks the fifth successive one for this series of prizes. Every season the interest in them has been growing steadily, and the exhibition put on this winter in the Brigg's baseball cage proved no exception. The prizes donated this year totalled over $14,000. Five awards of $2,000 each were given to business and advertising concerns from all over the country...
...rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe and the Western Hemisphere will be decidedly in the background until the autumn brings the World Series and football. Amsterdam will be the center of interest as the focus of the Olympic games, but wanderers in Europe have been running across extra events going on almost anywhere for the past six months...
...There is now no question about man's use of the air as a medium of transportation and communication. The events of the year have awakened public interest to the convenience, safety and advantage of travel through the air. For years the best engineering brains of all countries have been directed to improving the machine, in designs of plane and efficiency of engines. Would that a small portion of the time and money thus spent in developing the machine had been spent in improving our knowledge of the medium in which the machine, like man, must function. The importance...
...work from those who prefer to complete their studies in the usual manner. This suggested discrimination is a direct result of the finding that the majority of the undergraduates, gentlemen but not scholars, neither desire, nor are capable of any great scholastic accomplishment, that their study shares their interest with a number of legitimate pursuits, and that it is but just to free the genuine students from retardation by the mass. Both in cause and proposal this declaration by the Yale council parallels the similar plan advocated by the CRIMSON at the conclusion of the first Reading Period...