Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twenty-fifth anniversary of his work in education was recently held at the home of C. S. Thomas in Newton. Twenty-three members of the staff of the Graduate School of Education attended. The dinner was followed by a social hour in which Dean Holmes read a paper on the School of Education after which he was presented an engraved watch by members of the staff...
...Chapman company is not a shipping concern, but sells bonds and real estate, and apparently Mr. Sheedy, the principal promoter, is the real purchaser of the ships. It looks like a promotion scheme, and I appeal to the Senate to stop this paper sale...
...Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoological garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem briar pipe, into which he tamps tobacco with his thumb. His working tools are paper and pencils on a good-sized table and his books (cheaply bound in paper for the most part) on shelves around the wall. Ornaments are a four-foot telescope and a large terrestrial globe. The grand piano in the room is his diversion...
...directors declared a 50% stock dividend a $1.12½ cash dividend (including a so-cent extra dividend), thus calling attention to their ability to put fat profits into the hands of the stockholders. During the brief speculative flurry which followed, Standard Oil of Indiana achieved the stock market (paper) value of a billion-dollar corporation...
...tolerably good answer to those who wail about modern literature (and who don't read it). Most of these authors should be collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf or Sherwood Anderson in levant. Hardy and France? Perhaps...