Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Lowell has for many years been interested in the collection of Keatsiana. Her library safe holds one of the best groups of Keats manuscripts and letters in existence. She has not been content to allow any fact, however small, that it was in any way possible to obtain, to escape her, and has brought unusual powers of detection to bear in discovering, and as unusual powers of understanding in interpreting. Recently, in New York City for a brief rest, during the course of which she lectured at Columbia University, she seemed a trifle tired. Small wonder! Visualize...
...novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful. "The Hanging of Kruscome Shanks" by Walter D. Edmonds Jr., comes much nearer to being a short story. In detail the story commands prose style, but in general effect it compromises between...
Actually, Mr. Coburn is anything but. He is "Samuel Sweetland," a slightly more than middle aged farmer with a married past, and hopes for a matrimonial future. The plot of the play is concerned with his scaly-eyed efforts to obtain a replacement for his dead wife. Mrs. Coburn plays opposite him as Araminta Dench, his super-efficient housekeeper...
...common blight. It does not, however, reach the large number of men who plan to put themselves through college and who will be unable to devote their full time and energy to their scholastic work. These men cannot keep their grades up to the high standard necessary to obtain financial recognition from the University, because much of their time is occupied in earning enough money to keep them in their precarious place. Raising their tuition fee fifty dollars is placing an additional millstone about their necks which to the substantial shoulders of the University would be a far lighter...
When the electric industry of the U. S. first got under way, the problem of financing its customers at once arose. The General Electric Co. consequently organized the Electric Bond & Share Co. as a subsidiary, to supervise electrical engineering construction projects and to obtain capital for them. In enterprises so financed, purchases of electrical equipment were confined to the General Electric as a seller. The Electric Bond & Share Co. came to control directly or indirectly over 100 electric power, street railway and gas companies, with a combined capital of about $650,000,000 and serving a population of over...