Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them two are of slight importance. The scene remains unchanged for the three acts, always the same room in the same house in New York. The acting being excellent, the play is thus concentrated upon its central theme with a force that, on the opening night at least, made the audience almost uncomfortable with suspense as the hidden nature of a woman in love, hidden even from herself, develops into an obsession and then becomes a painful hallucination. She ends by suicide...
...bright jewels of the West Indies",--average temperature 60 to 70 degrees. For science has decreed that sunshine like food is pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround the acquisition of sunburn without the inconvenience of sand in ones hair and ears...
With a uniform increase in, tuition the shoe is bound to pinch somewhere. For the approximate two-thirds or more students who are not self-supporting there will be no great hardship. It would be safe to say that for at least half of this number the regular opportunity to pay the entire bill would be welcome. They should not, and in most cases, do not care to accept philanthropy in the case of education. Since it seems impossible to develop any system which would operate efficiently in the form of a sliding scale arranged on the ability...
...advent of an educational experiment has removed an unsound, unhealthy arrangement. Freedom from tutorial conferences has forced the student to enter the mid-year exams as an uncoached amateur, but it has permitted the tutor, who would ordinarily be, if not stormed, at least beset by pleas for assistance, to give undivided attention to his own work. The definite knowledge that many of the faculty are turning the period to purposes that will later have a published reality, may be not unjustly interpreted as evidence that the majority are doing so. Books yet unborn will stand as testimony...
According to the message received from the officers of the company, resetting of the type and other incidental work would necessitate a wait of at least three or four months...