Word: letting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond enjoys two outside lectures which promise to provide him with no little interesting material. The process of rounding off the rough edges, which long years of concentration and distribution have left on his education is a thoroughly pleasant one, and the Vagabond is not the man to let pass by the opportunity to learn a little about art and literature when the occasion comes...
...anticipate letters of protest, let it be said at once that college athletes are often known to be good scholars. Many of them deplore the disproportionate attention given to sport, And not a few of them would put the blame for this not upon their fellows in college, but upon the insistent alumni and upon the general public going in vast multitudes to watch what are thought of as our young barbarians all at play. --N. Y. Times...
...When we have industrialized the Soviet Union and set the mujiks [peasants] to driving tractors, let the honorable capitalists with their 'civilization' try to outstrip us. Then we shall see which country can be called backward and which the vanguard of human progress...
...Bell-discovered physiological fact that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases. It seemed like thought transference. No hocus-pocus was it, however...
...stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...