Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" contains an editorial, "Mobilized Knowledge", in which the following paragraph from Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, is used for a text:--"A university today is a glorified factory. It is a mammoth corporation, dealing not in a single product or group of products, but in the principles and products of all knowledge. It has added to its traditional strength because it has learned how to organize knowledge in such fashion that the fundamentals of the several fields can be brought to bear upon a given situation in almost...
...last week, poring over the American Mercury for February, a Crimson editor came upon "Answer No. 62" in Editor H. L. Mencken's "Notes and Queries" department. The paragraph read...
Boiling with loyal rage, the Harvard editor fumbled through a back file of the Mercury until he found "Query No. 62" to which his fellow collegian had made reply. This other paragraph read...
Action on the request was prompt. Three days later the following paragraph was published in Army Orders...
...case of William Mitchell, Colonel of U. S. aviation, found guilty of conduct "to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," went to the President's desk for review. The paragraph that the presidential eyes came especially to rest upon was the one that read: "Upon secret written ballot the Court sentences the accused to be suspended from rank, command and duty, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances, for five years" (Time, Dec. 28). Col. Mitchell's adherents had been hoping that the President would delete that "five" and write "two" or perhaps "three." They...