Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is assured men who succeed with the Company. Business depression and the subsequent unemployment probably affect the Telephone organization less than any other group, for in good times or in bad, the Telephone Company will do business. It is so much a part of our economic and social life that nothing short of a physical or social revolution would have any great effect on the business...
...Just now, I'm trying vaudeville for the first time in my life, and I certainly was nervous when I first stepped on the stage. Why, I was trembling so much, I'm afraid they must have thought I was trying to do the shimmy, before I'd even thought about it. But after the first minute or so, everything went wonderful and I seemed to have the audience right with me. They never fail to react when I give them that old Black Bottom or some of the rest of my stuff...
...made up on which rates are based; the Underwriting where clauses and contracts for the policies are made up; the General Accounting, where records are kept, as in any large organization--these, and others, divided into the different fields in which the Company may be engaged, which are Life. Fire, and Casualty, present diversified opportunities for the college graduate...
Professor L. P. Jacks, principal of Manchester College, Oxford, will deliver two lectures, under the auspices of the Dowse Institute, on Thursday and Friday. The subject of the first is to be "Religious Difficulties in Early Life", and that of the second, "Sightseeing. Time Thinking, and Religion." Both will be given in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public...
...recent survey conducted at Columbia shares a unanimous sentiment among national leaders in public life, industry, and education favoring the re-instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...