Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filling in the bottom layer of three score suitcases, when the cast of "Not Now--Later" is divided in attention between last classes and packing Puritan costumes, when all the undergraduate world seems to have a train schedule in its hand, there are eight Sophomores who will have none of this. They will steady themselves on the deck of the battleship Utah as she bucks the tides of the island-dotted lower harbor of Boston. The Utah is bound for the trial courses off the Maine coast; as members of her crew these eight students will be not merely witnesses...
Last year 14 deputations were sent out to churches, one to a Y. M. C. A., and none to schools; 50 different men took part. The decrease in the number of trips to churches might have the following explanation; deputations have been sent to most of the churches which are interested. These don't want annual deputations. Besides, there is some question as to the value of a college deputation. College men are more nearly qualified to talk to boys at schools and Y. M. C. A.'s than to gatherings of older people in church...
Another contradiction: 1) "In Russia . . . where are the rich? There are none. And where the groveling, feverish poor? Gone also. . . . You cannot feel want here any more than you can feel material luxury, they are not," but 2) "Prices of everything were outrageously high, salaries could not compare with what things cost and there was never enough of anything, neither food nor entertainment, nor what you would...
...identity of Author S. S. Van Dine has long been a mystery. One guess is that he is a famed architect living in Manhattan. Readers who like their murders raw have been annoyed by his ramblings into esthetics; but none can deny that his plots are incredibly good. His Greene Murder Case has an almost perfect culprit. His Canary Murder Case has an almost perfect climax-in a poker game...
...best manner, which is putting it charitably. Of particular feebleness are the two attempts on pages one twenty-one and two, while "Light Cast on Moving Tragedy" very nearly approaches these in its unworthiness. The rest of the prose is at least up to a satisfactory level, though none of it deserves particular lar mention...