Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lecture Hall, which will do very well for a convention hall, and the battle proper begins. There is no mystery, gentlemen, no hocus-pocus; every issue plainly before your eyes, every candidate offered for what he is worth. The college side-show serves to whet the appetite while the main tent is being prepared. But the pungency of the 1924 performance is lacking this year. Houston may watch a real struggle: New Lecture Hall is slated to observe a walk-over on the first ballot...
Ford Hall Forum, that Sunday evening haven of Boston free speech and Harvard liberals, is threatened with closing. The Baptist Social Union, its main support, is reported to have voted against its continuance. Financial reasons are advanced for the move; but David K. Niles, associate director of the Forum, sees behind this action the shadow of the Blue Menace, which for a decade has been growing more and more potent in this state. Born of the anti-Red agitation immediately after the war, this undemocratic reaction found agents for its platform in a few super-patriotic organizations, and a means...
...rather than factually by famed Novelist Theodore Dreiser, is now appearing in news organs adherent to the North American Newspaper Alliance. Thus far the emotional genius of Novelist Dreiser has led him into such self-contradictions as are contained in the following statements: 1) "I believe that in the main the Russian people are satisfied with the Soviet mechanism, and that they think it is perfecting itself daily," but 2) "There is a dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... All over Russia you find a kind of terror of the Communists, and what they may do in case...
...main interest of the story comes when Spike meets his rival, and "the" girl--Louise Brooks. From then on the picture might well be entitled "A Text Book for Pugilistic Aspirants...
...report with the possible exception of the authoritative statistics. Almost too much has been said and written about the success of the experiment in connection with the various Departments, the Faculty, the Library, the extra-curriculum activities, and last but not least, the upperclassmen. The main thing proved by Dean Hanford's article is the fact that the Reading Period has definitely established itself, that not only is there an improvement in the matter of satisfactory grades, but also such virtues as the stimulation of original effort, independent reading and tutorial work, and most vitally important of all a recognition...