Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except the Council itself? Horrible thought--yet to dwell on it is to realize that most of the above is a lie, for it deals with the past, not with the present. In the mirror of their acts are seen the characteristics of former Councils, but while a mirror shows too well the ravages of the past if shows nothing of the future, for it takes no account of the possibilities of change within...
...present in the person of a motion-picture actress (Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic attitude. Heroine rushes in, and the future is prophesied in the usual way. (Curtain...
...undergraduate paper to attempt to recommend what those changes should be would be presumptuous. But within its province does lie the suggesting of issues and the expression of opinion looking towards a system which will meet, in the best spirit of education and democracy the problems which await the colleges within the next generation. Such suggestions and opinions can, however, be of permanent value if offered as parts of one consistent scheme. To follow a figure formerly used, planks can be of real value only if serving as part of a structure, or of at least a scaffolding. Some such...
...found that in periods of pressure, more failures result and greater losses to depositors, than would otherwise occur. Since this guarantee plan has never been introduced into the National Bank Act, State banks have been able to escape its effects when enacted in the State under whose jurisdiction they lie, by converting themselves into National Banks. The tendency of the best State banks of Oklahoma a few years ago to do this, was the main feature which prevented the serious collapse of banks in that State from making a clean sweep of Oklahoma's banking institutions...
...done little actual coaching and that little only on the rudimentary points of how to stand on the rubber and how to throw to bases. He is going on the principle that the development of a pitching arm must be gradual and that three months of indoor work lie ahead...