Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from 65 to 70 on some of the longer floaters. Coach Hanford, who is, by the way, a booter of no mean ability himself, was not too well satisfied with the star's showing, remarked: "If we were playing the Law School such grades would be acceptable, but things look tough against an aggregation of freebooters like Yale's team of this year...
...village lad went West, to teach physics in the University of Nebraska, but, when he branched out into contracting, his star rose in the East and he definitely made Manhattan his base of operations in 1890. From his great house on Riverside Drive he can look across the mile wide Hudson River and perhaps dreams of bridging it. With "J. G.," who has now turned 60, lives "J. D.," his son, James Dugald White, 38. "J. D." is a director in all three of his father's companies, but avoids the connotations of "engineer" and describes himself...
...Soul. Lowell Schmaltz puts in his list of "leading intellects" Anne Nichols, because, "say, the author of a play like Abie's Irish Rose, that can run five years, is in my mind-maybe it's highbrow and impractical to look at it that way, but the way I see it, she's comparable to any business magnate, and besides they say she's made as much money as Jack Dempsey...
Three dangers he sees, turning from the past to look into the future. First, he finds that the cost of high pressure distribution is beginning to offset the saving of mass productions. In the second place, mass production is threatened by hand-to-mouth buying, fostered by the need for rapid distribution and the consequently developed habit of rapid "style-change". And in the third place, Mr. Mazur sees danger to our prosperity from a change in the European trade balance...
...Kent, writing of the older party, traces its growth through the past 136 years, notes its achievements and its blunders, comments on its present condition of legarthy and ventures to look into the future. He considers at some length the men whom he considers outstanding--Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, Bryan, and Wilson. A newspaper man, his style is concise, simple, dramatic...