Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary statement of the results was given in a paper by Professor Stetson and Miss Olmstead at the fall meeting of the American Astronomical Society at Amherst. Since then the investigation of thousands of observations for latitude of the Naval Observatory at Washington has been analyzed at the Harvard Laboratory and Dr. Stetson announces this appears unmistakeably to affirm the results of his previous study. The fact that this rise and fall of the value in latitude is gradual and systematic and represents a range nearly 20 times the value of the probable error leaves little room for doubt...
Christmas is quite another thing. All the brains that have been racked and paper wasted in vain attempts to analyse the spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget...
Most of the Dramatic Club plays of recent years have been successes before they started. Everyone has known about them. There has been a tying and untying of pretty packages up and down until the casual stroller in the street kicks up at every step tinsel and tissue paper, all with that enticing label: "Not To Be Opened Until Just Before Christmas...
When an incalculably rich and potent publisher stoops to the lowly plane of author, and writes a piece for his paper, the subject must be dear to his heart. Last week it was no less a publisher than Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson who appeared as contributor to his nickel weekly, Liberty-His subject was aviation and to adumbrate his emotion he quoted from Kipling (with emendations) as follows...
...Steel, International Harvester,.Radio Corp., Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward have been among his favorite stocks. He is believed to have bought 100,000 shares of Montgomery Ward when it was selling at 75. Last week the Montgomery Ward quotation reached 438½, which would give Mr. Cutten a paper profit of about...