Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter from Professor C. W. Kennedy, Chairman of the Princeton Athletic Board, to W. J. Bingham, Director of Athletics at Harvard, the Princeton attitude is set forth clearly, and the reasons for this drastic step are fully outlined. The last paragraph of the letter declares: "I may add also that Princeton will never accept, so far as she is concerned, the implications of the provisions of the policy adopted by the Harvard Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports, as set forth in the resolutions of October 14, which I received this morning...
...French, American, British and German authorities have proclaimed as a lie that paragraph in the Treaty of Versailles which holds Germany alone responsible for the War." Thus opened the preamble to a document signed last week by 1,000,000 Germans. It is a petition requesting Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann to bend every effort toward securing the establishment of an international tribunal to adjudicate War guilt...
...surveyed. "Too many states," reads the report, "in pursuit of false ideals of national interest, have imperilled their own welfare and lost sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war." This paragraph, and two others that follow might have been lifted bodily from Professor Taussig's "Principles of Economics". They are overflowing with sound economic theory and pious statements. One begins to regret the carping attitude of "The Nations" and its ilk toward those high minded gentlemen referred to collectively as "Wall...
...Your paragraph [TIME, Sept. 27], "Last week, as everyone knows, the rain and wind gods conspired with Neptune, wiped the 'Magic City' off the map," is dead wrong. Miami was not wiped off the map by any means, and is coming to the fore now with its rebuilding operations...
...Another paragraph, "Over in rich, idle, Hollywood, one lone building, the Masonic Temple, stood drunkenly. As if enraged by such impertinence, the hurricane struck again." While the storm did come again with renewed force, it certainly left more than a lone building. Many buildings of sound construction, including the Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood Hills Hotel and many others suffered only minor injury, such as roofs blown off, glass broken, and ornamentations damaged...