Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college nucleus "to draw diverse types of undergraduates together in close units of academic and social fellowship." The theory seems sound, superficially, at any rate. In the colleges which have remained small in numbers, where personal contacts and opportunities for close acquaintance are inescapable, the student bodies are well knit, as they are not in the great universities...
There was another element in Mr. Coolidge's tariff pronouncements last week,-probably of more interest to the country. The President announced his refusal, in spite of a recommendation by the Tariff Commission, to raise the duty on cotton-warp knit-fabric gloves. Before the War these gloves were always made in Germany. When the War came and cut off the German supply, the industry sprang up in this country. More recently the German competition sprang into existence again and began to undersell the U. S. commodity. In 1922 in the Fordney-McCumber Act, the duty on these gloves...
...treatment of the main problem with its trenchant heart-rending situations suggests Galsworthy's manner, indeed so does the whole well-knit play. An occasional line and a tendency toward the melodramatic damage it only slightly. As for the acting, the ensemble divides the honors; it is a notably even performance, topped by Mr. Clive...
...Leon must be feeling very important at the thought of sitting at the head of such an august assemblage, with the representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden and Uruguay ranged about him under his direction. But the League is yet such a loosely knit body that the importance of its officers as such is small, and that the importance of those who attend meetings is only in proportion to the power of the nation which each represents...
...Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the President, joined the Needle Guild of America and made a little speech to the branch of Farmingdale, L. I., of which she became a member. She reminded them that the Guild was not a sewing circle and each member must present two knitted garments a year to some hospital patient unable to knit. She spoke on the seventh anniversary of the death of her son Quentin in France...