Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sages. Many were the self-proclaimed sages who declared they had predicted the break. But outstanding Wise Man was Roger W. Babson who, after a record of much unsuccessful seering, publicly forecast the decline, although instead of his break of "60-80 points," the industrial average dropped 183 (according to Prof. Irving Fisher's index of 50 most active industrials). Quickly capitalized was Seer Babson's accuracy, as were Wag Cantor's losses. Newsstands displayed for $3 a pamphlet giving Babsonic market recommendations. A long silent sage, John Moody, late last week predicted the break was over, that 1930 would...
...civic and social project far more present in the minds of Chicagoans than, for example, Columbia is in New Yorkers' minds or the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphians', was suggested by the list of people who accepted invitations to the Hutchins inaugural last week. It was a list much like the roster of first-nighters at the opening of Chicago's new Civic Opera House (TIME, Nov. 4, 18). Included were: President & Mrs. James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen (drug stores); Harold Leonard Stuart (Halsey, Stuart & Co., brokers) and his socialite sister; Mrs. Edith Rockefeller...
...were taken through classrooms, laboratories, clinics; were allowed to poke into the University press, oldest (1892) U. S. college printshop; saw Police-Professor August Vollmer's sphygmanometer (lie detector) in the Social Science Building (TIME, May 27). In the Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes its closest contact with the city. In the research committee's workshop were shown compilations of information...
...declare strength or weakness-has been losing caste. Replacing it has emerged a new convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many cigarets had been smoked and much ice-water sipped from black goblets the Vanderbilt trophy was presented to the team of the New York Bridge Whist Club. The winners had used the new forcing system. So had the Cavendish Club team, which came in second, and so had the Knickerbocker Club team, which was third...
Musical: FOLLOW THRU, THE LITTLE SHOW, HOT CHOCOLATES, SWEET ADELINE, BITTERSWEET, A WONDERFUL NIGHT (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus?great score, not much else...