Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Department attaches had long been wondering whether any complaint would be made to Ambassador Dawes about the excessive costliness of his cable messages from London. On diplomatic business the Ambassador has been anything but brief and $400 messages from him to Washington have not been rare. If Statesman Stimson had any intention of suggesting that Ambassador Dawes economize on cable tolls, he put it aside when the Ambassador, all geniality, asked him to put up at the U. S. embassy during the London conference. Arm-in-arm they went off to Woodley, the Stimson estate, for luncheon. Secretary Stimson...
...first of which was delivered last night, are being given under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education. Mr. Cabot has made extensive visits to schools both in Europe and the United States, His observations cover both public and private institutions and have been the result of long experience in school work...
...theme song, "Lovable and Sweet", is as fast and sparkling a tune as has been tacked on to any movie in a long time. Via perfect synchronization "The Four Seasons" send the tune over the talkie instruments and keep the picture moving along at a swift pace...
Without letting it bother me an awful lot, I always thought of football scouting as being a pretty low device and I wondered why colleges would agree to scout and be scouted. As long as there was an agreement between the A. A's of the different universities, there was nothing much to be said about the situation except that a football scout was a questionable individual much like a cigar-passing Washington lobbyist. I imagined him to be a small, dark haired man with a false mustache and an evil...
...Bible has come to be regarded, not as the traditional basis of all religious belief, but as the literature of a long religious development. If, we do not feel concerned about miracles today, it is because we have learned to see the spiritual meaning of life not in physical marvels but in the achievement of moral values and religious devotion to the best that we know. The modern student is finding no conflict between his scientific thinking and his religious appreciation...