Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinemas, parents cannot be sure that their children will see a type of performance designed to improve their morals and character. The average modern drama not only lacks good taste and educational art entirely but generally depicts robberies, disorders and the baser passions. The Municipality of Santiago will present in our new Children's Theatre plays especially written for children only. There will be some free performances so that the children of the poor, as well as the wealthy, may enjoy this wholesome influence...
...theory that U. S. youth is going Over the Hill to the Poorhouse is concerned, tobacco men feel that the woman smoker has become an accepted element in the contemporary U. S. scene, and that abstinence from sweets is dictated not by the Lucky campaign but by present fashion...
...skull in a glass case was next set on the table. Whenever desired by anyone present, the skull would open and close its mouth...
...transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement of motors on such a ship. Maybe they would...
...regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...