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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that the gentle tide of ridicule which undermined the labors of Commissioner Hirshfield of New York some months ago would teach all subsequent fools to watch their steps when they seek to purify the wells of American history. Not so. The latest worker for the cause of 1776 percent Americanism is Representative O'Brien, of Dorchester, who has filed a bill in the House to prohibit the hellish poison of falsification from polluting the teaching of the history of the United States...
...Government by the people that was Lincoln's ideal," continued the North Dakota Senator, "was transformed into a Government of the masses by the classes forming less than five percent of all the people who have, under Republican legislation and administration acquired possession of practically three-fourths of all the wealth accumulated by the labor of five generations of Americans...
...question was still unanswered when the CRIMSON reporter entered the Splendid. "We have had a 20 percent increase in our average of daily customers since Memorial closed," the manager said. "This means that well over 300 students have turned to our restaurant now that they have been deprived of the privilege of eating at Memorial Hall." The most recent restaurant in the Square has taken the clientele of the most ancient. The "Splendid" has succeeded Memorial
...very well known astronomer, and has made a special study of eclipses. He has taken a leading part in the preparations which are being made at the University Observatory for the coming total eclipse of the sun, which occurs on January 24. Although its surface will be only 99 percent covered by the moon at Cambridge, the eclipse will be total in the western part of Massachusetts, and Professor Shapley plans to travel to an observatory there or in eastern New York state. Other members of the Observatory, including assistant Professor Edward S. King will probably go to the Maria...
Your periodical has my approval as evidenced by the enclosed card. Not one hundred percent, however. I doubt if the majority of your readers enjoy so constant an inversion of phrases or so much adjectival alliteration. Your weakest department is Sports. Presumably the purpose of such a style is humorous?but there are still those who enjoy the English language...