Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversy over the value of the Phi Beta Kappa key as a symbol of something more than excellent scholarship appears interminable. Several weeks ago in an article widely commented upon by the press. Mr. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co--expressed his opinion on the subject. He found many move wearers of the key, proportionately, occupying responsible business positions that their less scholastic classmates. This view seemed a convincing refutation of a rather widely held opinion among business men that these who had won high standing in college were not apt to be particularly successful in business...
Press despatches to the above effect, last week, were exaggerations, but not essentially untrue. The key hyperbole was to describe as "one of the handsomest private yachts in the world" the prosaic German steamer Lutzow. Factually speaking the Lutzow had been chartered by German chemical interests allied with the famed "I. G."-Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindmtrie Aktiengesellschaft-for the purpose of holding a general nitrate pow wow and technical discussion of nitrate problems among the world's best chemical minds...
...this era of efficiency, particularly noticeable within the last five years, wearers of the Phi Beta Kappa key no longer hang their heads, mumble self-consciously, fumble with their vest pockets. They are proud to possess the key. They know that the key Has come into its own. Undergraduates have always voted, insincerely, that they would rather win it than a football letter. But only lately have potent business executives preferred to hire P. B. K. men. For example, Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., recently announced the results of a survey showing that...
...KEY OF LIFE-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). Versatile author of psychic Cold Harbour, Conradian Sea Horses, two volume saga Love Is Enough, Dr. (medical) Young now combines a poetic setting in Shropshire with the vivid glitter of Egypt. Ruth Morgan leaves her English countryside to marry an Egyptologist, whose heart, but for an April with her in Shropshire, is buried with tattooed mummies in the tombs of Thebes. Bezuidenhout's work is also in Thebes, but his anthropological research is for the sake of his profession as doctor to the living, and not in adoration of dead antiquity...
...tournament that something was wrong, but did not discover until after the match that her opponent was left-handed.-Her "Poker Face" ("a point I have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life.-All players who have turned professional she mentions in the pluperfect tense.-And though she declares Jean Borotra well-named the "Bounding Basque," Betty Nuthall one of the best liked visitors we ever...