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Word: may (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing as a start, a further progression may commence strengthening the position of American literature in the college curriculum where today it is often neglected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GONE NATIVE | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

...fiance of the hero's daughter, who, of course, turns out to be the heroine's own daughter. And so on-far into the night. It is difficult to tell whether the players are in on the joke. They are as incredible as the plot but that may be just part of the game. Certainly no one was ever more villainous than Arthur Vinton, and without a black moustache, too. The only touch of reality is lent by Betty Lancaster, an ingenue with the makings of a Future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...provision of the Constitution is to be reconciled with the instrument as a whole. The word "adjourn" appears several times in the text. Less than a quorum "may adjourn from day to day." Neither House shall without the consent of the other "adjourn for more than three days." "Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairman Discusses Veto Case Now Before the Supreme Court | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...mentioned--Actuarial, where the figures are made up on which rates are based; the Underwriting where clauses and contracts for the policies are made up; the General Accounting, where records are kept, as in any large organization--these, and others, divided into the different fields in which the Company may be engaged, which are Life. Fire, and Casualty, present diversified opportunities for the college graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...true in other businesses, the larger and more progressive Companies have definite recruiting and training policies and are constantly on the lookout for college men who may enter their organization and work through the various departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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