Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from behind drawn shutters by Mme. Belmont-Gobert and many another. Soon a fist knocked at her door, and 16 German soldiers were billeted in her house. Only the living-room was left to Mme. Belmont-Gobert. Then, after the soldiers had clumped out to forage for dinner, a light tap came at her back door. With fearful, hungry eyes, a British trooper, Patrick Fowler, asked Mme. Belmont-Gobert to hide and succor...
...vital matters, Mr. Babbitt becomes nervous and his newspaper howls. So it was last week. A large part of the faculty of Princeton University followed a large part of the faculty of Columbia University in advocating reconsideration of the Allied debts to the U. S. in a more altruistic light. President John Grier Hibben and 115 professors signed the Princeton petition. The Chicago Tribune was howl-leader. In an editorial headed "Piffle Patriots at Princeton" it said: "The reasoning of the Columbia professors was not good in either morals or economics. The signers were obviously groggy with emotionalism...
Among the so-called "light-fiction" monthlies, the "Cosmopolitan" is supreme, with the "Red Book" following close behind. The "American" and its how-I-became-a-successful-clothespinking stories trails a poor third, "College Humor" sells more copies than any other monthly periodical. With its collegiate cullings from all the college humorous magazines of the country except the Harvard "Lampoon", it stands in a field more or less...
...made numerous trips to Europe to examine material for his study and hopes to present the most finished and most intensive record of the man yet achieved. In tracing the genius of Coleridge, Professor Lowes hopes to throw light upon the varying moods and other causes which so influenced the poet in his work...
...light of such comments as these, and in that of fuller appreciation of just what the change will entail, a more complete estimate of its worth is now possible than when the news was first announced. The most significant revision that has been established is the realization that the change is so far merely nominal. Until it is accepted by the individual departments, it is entirely inoperative, and even then, it will apply only to those courses designated by the department...