Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had called a priest, weeks ago, and the Generalissimo lived on. The Associated Press had reported "authoritatively" that he could live "one week or ten days at most," but already old Campaigner Ferdinand Foch had doubled that span. What matter if Death took him at the next clock-tick? Already he had fooled them all, and a man may call a joke a joke and die with all decorum and honor when...
...have been paid to the Holy Father by one of his nieces and her husband, on the day before the recent Italo-Papal Treaty, Concordat and Financial Agreement was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). Such was the iron efficacy of Dictator Benito Mussolini's censorship that the Italian press had not yet printed a single word of what was to occur. None the less the Pontiff's niece, like everyone else, had heard rumors, and she asked...
...victory is far from our purpose. Harvard feels that the contest provides an interesting comparison of educational methods and results. Yale does not feel that any definite results can be determined. The omission of the contest from this year's program of news items for the profit of the press should turn out to be a wise move. --Yale News...
University press publications in the past have enabled the distribution of considerable material which otherwise might not have seen print and would have been lost to large circulation among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from...
Undergraduate opinion, tinged with Congressional maturity should form a conglomerate whole whose significance the national broadcasting chains cannot well afford to overlook. The only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...