Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives and souls of every type of American undergraduate ranging from "the wealthy private institutions of the East" to the "great State universities of the Middle West, where democracy takes more obvious forms". While the author points out the deplorable falsity of the motion pictures affecting to depute undergraduate life and the justifiable student derision, he not only succeeds in digging pitfalls for motion picture directors in general but succeeds in relegating himself to a similar precarious position. For while undergraduates might tolerate a cinematic absurdity in which the beautiful "co-ed" acts as water boy to the football team...
...bring greater prosperity to business and more of the good things of life to all the people? The answer is in this book-a simple and esay-to-operate plan, revolutionary yet approved by business men, economists, and statesmen. And it is set forth in the form of a story so interesting that busy men-men who have time to read but few books-have read the book thorugh at one sitting...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...
...high, but whether you go to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon, India, or Africa, you find persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when no one could look forward to a cure...
Miss Talley has been singing all her life. She said, "At eleven I started studying, and since that time have been continually striving to improve. My year abroad taught me much and opened for me many fine opportunities...