Word: paragraphing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paragraph on page 14 of your issue of December 2 you debit North Carolina with one lynching in the year 1929. This is an error. There has been no lynching in this State this year. Fact is, there has been no lynching in North Carolina since...
...Stanford nevertheless brings to the pages of his novel a real tang of the sea. His straightforward style, carries forward a tale spread over several years, without omitting anything but unessentials. Compactly, tersely worded, with excellent selection of detail, "Invitation to Danger" has not a single wasted chapter or paragraph...
Measured by the standard expressed in the first paragraph, intramural football--including both inter-class and inter-dormitory--has been the most successful sport this fall. The nature of the game makes it possible to promote all the benefits to a high degree. For this purpose three men are assigned to coach the three class squads and four men the four Freshman dormitory squads. The results in both these branches have been very successful. One factor which is greatly responsible for this condition is the arrangement of informal contests with outside opponents. Our experience has taught us that intramural contests...
...Evanston, 111., reported that a blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets. The first stanza-paragraph rhymed "sundry" with "money." The third did better, rhyming "money" with "sunny." The fifth and final stanza, typical of the rest, read as follows...
...American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested that the Senate Finance Committee should "purge itself" by removing Senator Bingham from its membership. Cried Democratic Senator George of Georgia: "The shadow of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association is across every schedule and every paragraph of this pending tariff bill. That shadow becomes darker and longer as time goes on. ... A badge of dishonor and shame...