Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomores this year by one point in the official team ranking, but with their full strength on the field were rated the equals of the Sophomores. Although the Seniors had no legal claim to the award of numerals the Student Council recommendation was prompted by a desire to stimulate interest in interclass athletics and to recognize the work done by the members of the Senior team in class football...
...hope is that conditions in this country -where there are more mentally sick in asylums than there are students in colleges-will be better appreciated, that more people will read ''A Mind That Found Itself," a true story of absorbing interest, and learn what wide movement also started by Mr. Beers will receive the attention, sympathy and support it deserves...
...parentheses, Playwright Eugene O'Neill in asides, made their characters utter their real thoughts during conventional dialog, a device awkward in fiction or on the stage but natural and effective in the many pictures which have contained hints of it. Used here to great extent, the trick adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live up to his reputation as the greatest lover...
...wall in the offices of Blair & Co., bankers, at No. 24 Broad St., Manhattan, hangs a portrait of J. Insley Blair, founder. Revered is the memory of Mr. Blair, but stocks and bonds no longer interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient...
...Balchen (who is with Commander Byrd now) and the late Floyd Bennett were testing the Josephine Ford plane for the Byrd North Pole flight two years ago, Secretary Murray was a Detroit newspaperman and flew with them on some of their experimental flights. That experience gave him a personal interest in the present Byrd expedition; his job gave him a practical interest. Hence his cablegram to Commander Byrd last week: "Dunedin, Florida, joins Dunedin, New Zealand, in hailing your expedition and extending best wishes for your courageous venture-Dunedin (Florida) Chamber of Commerce." The message -was shrewdly repeated...