Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least such is the opinion of the Illinois Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association, an organization which can justly afford to be interested in the "college man" inasmuch as it proposes to do something about it. It is prophesied that next spring this problematical personage will array himself in a light gray suit. His hat will be gray: his shoes black. His shirt will be white; his collar soft. His tie will be of a rich cream color. Thus clad he will appear as a figure infinitely more unique than any ordinary individual, for he is in the position...
...French that the United States might attempt elsewhere the militant methods of debt collection that she has found so successful in South America. Lately the French cartoonists have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing. In the light of this fear, it was unfortunate, perhaps typically so, that Secretary Kellogg, on the day before the signing, should propose another treaty, this time to abolish submarines, which happen to be the basis of the French navy...
Harvard men throughout the world, dismayed by news that Professor Charles Townsend Copeland ("Copey") had resigned, took heart again last week. For a quarter century the light in Hollis 15 was a signal to Harvard generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance...
...giant dirigible Los Angeles on the deck of the aircraft carrier Saratoga. So delicate and important was the experiment that news was guarded until the trick was turned. Nosing out to sea last week the Los An-geles met the Saratoga off the Virginia Capes. Both headed into the light, gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were dropped, sailors dragged the huge sky ship closer, held it fast...
...purpose of the study is to account for the tremendous variation in the operating expenses of different concerns, and to indicate to individual firms points at which they can bring about economies. In addition to this phase of the study, the Bureau hopes to be able to throw some light on the relative importance and effectiveness of the several marketing activities and to clarify some of the merchandising problems of grocery manufacturers...