Word: omits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next year, in accordance with the recent decision of the English Department to allow all Freshmen getting 70 per cent or higher in their Comprehensive English examination to omit English A, the enrollment of the course will be diminished by more than one third. This will undoubtedly somewhat change the nature of the course...
TIME actually does give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion. It does omit surplus verbiage. But it also gives unnecessary and vulgar sensational stories-and it gives these stories in a manner more objectionable than that used by the gum-chewers' sheetlets so greatly decried by TIME...
TIME claims to give the events of the day in thorough and concentrated fashion, and to omit surplus verbiage and news of no importance...
...sidewalk who suddenly behold a garbage pail at the bottom of the hill. Having filled their columns with the same sort of thing before, they now found it too late to stop. The tabloids, moreover, had made of the Brownings "news" which newspapers could not, they felt, afford to omit. The Hearst Journal was willing enough, nay, eager, to rush its leading staff members to the trial, including saccharine Nell Brinkley who discovered a "lesson to mothers" for the front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation...
...omit further unfair comparison of mediums, the play is powerful on its own plane. Of a moving generality it makes a convincing particular. Actor Glenn Anders as Dodd does not come up to London's frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in London could not have far surpassed the performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife...