Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When similar encouraging reports had been received concerning cells in the armies of Great Britain, France and Poland, Chairman Rykov enthusiastically predicted: "The last months of 1928 and the first months of 1929 will constitute a period of mutinies and seditions in the armies of Capitalist Powers...
Most of the fine or the expensive pictures which are sold abroad (see below) are bought by wealthy U. S. collectors. Over a long period of years, perhaps as much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...
...Cornell plan may prove depriving where full success, measured in terms of potentiality, may be only half-success. It will be very much at the mercy of different instructors in the matters of attendance, reading, theses, and the like. In this respect it contrasts with the Reading Period, which insures a certain regular treatment of the interval by all courses that are not either elementary in nature or primarily for Freshmen. The Cornell lecturer can require attendance throughout the period, or he can place his faith where Harvard has, in assigned reading and study emancipated of the instructors...
...Cornell Sun, which in March of this year began its now rewarded fight for the experiment, is to be congratulated. In its present tentativeness, however, the Cornell plan has left just beyond reach the greater usefulness that Harvard, from results attained, has come to expect of a reading period...
...appropriately aquatic design, the pages of the current "Briny Deep" number of the Lampoon offer a half-hour's entertainment to those seeking relaxation after toil during these last days of preparation for the approaching examinations. But Lampy's readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy's course will catch the hint...