Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next year, the CRIMSON is publishing below its 1922-1923 schedule of competitions for the News, Photographic, Editorial, and Business Departments. The Editorial board will hold only two competitions during the year, but the News and Photographic departments will have three, and there will be four business competitions. None of these competitions will be more than 12 weeks in length. In all cases, the dates given below for the competitions are subject to slight change...
Other attempts at wireless photography have been made in the last two or three years, but none with the success of Dr. Korn's experiment. The picture just produced, though lacking in distinctness, gives great hopes for the future. The basic method is sound, and with the perfecting of the process which will come with time, the possibilities of the invention are almost without limit...
...legs. What our grandchildren are going to do with their legs we are not sure. Certainly they will be an encumbrance, and it will take more than two generations of evolution to dispense with them. Perhaps they will all cover them up and pretend they have none, as women used to do. --The Portland Oregonian...
...more interesting to us we are accustomed to accept with a shrug of the shoulders what "has always been that way" is the fact that tennis was a gambling game and was played extensively about the Mediterranean. (A direct offspring is still played in Cuba and Mexico as Jaialai). None of the modern equipment was necessary. The players knocked a ball with their hands over a mound of earth, or some such obstacle, and settled their debts on the spot. It is barely possible that desperate matches are played on the Jarvis courts for sodas at the corner drug store...
...there is something to be said for the high fee none the less. "To live is to spend money" some sage remarked, and so, if one lives more actively, he must spend more freely. Then, too, time is limited, and with lectures worth only sixty cents why not cut more often and regain time? But in the end this proceeding more than equals the savings from cut rate fees, recalling the story of the man who threw his return trip ticket out the window just to "pull something over on the railway...