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...most constant complaints heard in the Yard during the period in which these are being demanded in many courses for April grades comes from Seniors who are forced to interrupt their work for distinction in order to comply with individual courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BIG AND THE LITTLE | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

There is an act with two pianos on the stage, a very battered looking played by a young man with smooth hair and a very new one played by, it seems, an electric light socket. The organ complained the "St., Louis Blues" and one piano or the other would interrupt, as pianos will. The figures of Will Fyffe's salary were not announced...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...then poor men in thankful thousands, flocked to the southeastern U. S. and made it a sanitorium, then a playground. Financial vicissitudes naturally resulted from the influx of people ready to spend money freely for on those dearest objects of life-health and fun. Violent hurricanes came, too, to interrupt the development of a winter paradise. But now the crazy land-booms have subsided. The damage of the latest hurricanes is repaired and future damage provided against more carefully. The visits this year of the country's two leading figures, the outgoing Coolidge and the incoming Hoover, help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On the Map | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Each contestant was on a low small platform in front of a sleeping-tent. Spectators could stroll among the platforms and, if they chose, interrupt the contestants' squeaks and moans, their reading aloud, mumbling, gibbering, singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gab Fest | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Well Dressed Man will--write") and considering also that the Advocate's offices immediately adjoin my own tenement and that nightly the uproar occasioned by their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical man) ascend to interrupt my musings upon the good, the beautiful and the true, considering, as I say, these prejudical circumstances, it might be expected that I should lay down on the Christmas number of this edifying periodical a barrage of overripe metaphorical greengroceries and pop bottles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS CURRENT NUMBER OF ADVOCATE LITTLE ABOVE MEDIOCRE | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

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