Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He pointed out that the cost of producing raw rubber and cotton is about the same, but cotton sells at 22¢ and rubber at 90¢ a pound. On succeeding days rubber manufacturers told the committee the same story.
History of the Trouble. In June, 1912, the U. S. Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania handed down, with consent of the Aluminum Co. of America, a decree forbidding that company to continue certain practices which were considered monopolistic in tendency. In Jan., 1922, the Senate ordered the Federal...
In London, the Royal Academy exhibition of Sargent's work opened at Burlington House. U. S. tourists pointed their noses and their pencils at painting after painting, eager to point out the superiority of those borrowed from the U. S. to those owned in England. But alas, although 615 paintings...
Explanations being now in order. Professor Wegener pointed to the well-known sliding propensities of continents to account for their present state of mutual aloofness, thus causing great offence to Professor Jeffrey, who had based his story of the origin of the earth on opposite premises. Scientific discoveries, however, thrive...
Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, in his article on Oxford which was reprinted in yesterday's CRIMSON from the London Spectator, pointed out what seems to be the most striking difference between English and American universities. Of English universities Professor Morison said: "They are not expected to be all things to...