Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only question that remains is whether such practical considerations outbalance the more doubtful equities of government as they exist under present conditions in Mexico. With elections usually only a mockery of free balloting, the party in power cannot be ousted save by military force, and in the past whenever enough of the army could be induced to desert and there was suillicient popular discontent this has been the result...
...past many years there has been much talk of changing the name of our city. It seems that the Postoffice Department gave our first settlers a choice of two names; Ute and Grand Junction, there being no alternative. Grand Junction was naturally selected as the better...
...effect, fixing the proportion each foreign country contributed to U.S. "native stock" and the development of that stock since. To the U S were then to be admitted 150,000 immigrants annually, in direct proportion to the contributions their native countries have made to the whole U. S. population, past and present, Negroes excluded, new policy was to go into effect by Presidential proclamation July...
Ladies who in the past have presided over brilliant salons are Mme. du Barry, Mme. de Staël and the author of this book. The salon was fast becoming a lost art when Mrs. Draper staged her revival, substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns for précieux. In "memories of a world that has passed" she reconstructs her London music room; then peoples it with musicians-Thibaud, Rubinstein, Ysaye-and with listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write...
...speculation in an article in the current number of "The New Student." In the opinion of the author, who edits the undergraduate literary magazine of the University of Wisconsin, the dilemma at hand is largely, to be attributed to the shifting of interest in extra-curricular activities during the past generation, which has resulted in a decline in calibre of the candidates competing for staff positions on college literary periodicals. The increasing encroachments by campus newspapers and humorous publications on strictly literary fields have also played their part in creating the present situation...