Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the U. S. Treasury. With this cash to lend, it will try to induce farmers to forego some of their normal independence, to join co-operative marketing associations. These associations, with money borrowed from the board, will attempt to moye food from farm to market more cheaply, with less spoilage and waste, than is now accomplished by scattered and individual private effort...
...Less than one-third of the 6,500,000 U. S. farmers are now members of joint selling organizations. Success of farm relief now depends almost entirely upon the extent to which the farmers will now co- operate. Many experts believe that more than two-thirds of the farmers must join co-operatives before any appreciable benefit will accrue to husbandry as a whole...
...thousand other comments were pored over the next morning by Herr Goldarbeiter, ethereal Lisl's father, in his leather goods & luggage shop where Lisl used to be cashier and salesgirl. Proudly he told the neighbors again how Lisl had been warned not to enter the contest by no less a personage than the Bishop of Galveston (TIME, April 15) and how Lisl, though profoundly impressed by the cleric's warning, had decided to enter anyhow...
...might have expected from Mother Girard's warnings? He does not. He is happy in the happiness of the lovers. But by this time the audience has been prepared for his magnanimity by seeing him spurn a splendidly groomed and golden mistress (Verree Teasdale) for the less lustrous Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly apparelled and deep-voiced as Chandler. A small, piquant brunette named Sylvia Sidney...
This is a summary account of the high spots in the record of a single year's routine at the Harvard Library. Other chapters could be written, that would be less spectacular but just as full of every-day human interest and quite as important for the all around development of the Library as the greatest of all collections for the prosecution of productive scholarship, as well as for the education of young Americans. More significant than anything else in this record, however, is the fact that nothing has happened in 1928-29 which is not likely to be matched...