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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is life first time that any of the larger American Universities has so actively recognized the importance of motion pictures in business and in the life of the nation. The Business School believes that as a business school it should introduce into its regular courses what has now become one of the half dozen largest industries in the country. The number of persons engaged in it is relatively small, but the motion picture industry is now in close contact with and has an important and direct influence on a large proportion of the public in the United States...
...press in order to get it out by the date of the Freshman Jubilee. The business board ought to start on the first of December at the very latest. It was suggested that the photographic and arts and cuts board start work sooner also. The editorial board having the larger number of candidates to do its work and having to wait for the outcome of the spring activities, would not be able to accomplish any more by organizing earlier than March...
...explained Dr. Mayo, "an island continent, in area slightly larger than the United States. It lies between the tenth and fortieth parallels of latitude, south of the equator: Tasmania; the sixth state, is an island south of forty. The whole continent is rather warmer than the United States, approximately one-third of the northern part within the tropics. The climate may be compared with that of California; sunny weather predominates and except in Tasmania and the mountains snow is practically unknown...
Jack Down. Two days later a larger mob stormed the barricades of the British concession, tore them down in many places, ventured onto the Bund, screaming: "Down with British Imperialism! Kill the Britishmen...
...personal sort. Their gleanings they must then dress with language and emphases known only to habitues of a raucous young country's fleshpots. The stories were either published? blasting reputations?or brandished with a menace that brought forth, if not actual blackmail, the most servile acquiescence in the publishers' larger schemes...