Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected Treasury surplus. What this is expected to amount to is $250,000,000 or $300,000,000. The Democrats eager to be ahead of the Administration began to talk of a tax cut of $600,000,000. How is it to be done? By the simple process of paying off the national debt less rapidly than at present. Every year a large sum is set aside for amortizing the public debt-enough so that the War debt will be paid off in about 25 years. The Democrats propose to pay the debt off in 62 years-over the same...
...Vanishing American. Another western film that adds to U. S. history as did The Covered Wagon, and gives in the process excellent entertainment as did that memorable film, has appeared on the subject of the American Indian. It would be wildly impolitic to prophesy that The Vanishing American will be as popular a film as The Covered Wagon. Only time can tell that. It is built on the same plan, acted (principally by Richard Dix) with similar excellence, and is continuously interesting. For this, the very finest type of motion picture, there can be naught but eulogy...
...Broadway Quarantine, reviewed in TIME, Dec. 29, THE THEATRE). She plays a little girl who ran away with her sister's lover and got unexpectedly segregated with him by a plague. Neither fell ill, except at heart. They were subsequently married and are generally entertaining through the whole process...
...money in any slightest degree enters into the aim or purpose of the sport," writes Dr. Kennedy, the process of commercialism has set in... Take away the name of the university and the loyalty of the Alumni from the most skilled football team ever developed and the flooding gate receipts will dwindle and shrink to a trickling rill...
...school; yet the chances are that the College will receive a more accurate estimate of his scholastic abilities. With this in view, the college board originally offered the New Plan with the purpose of displacing the Old Plan entirely: but if, as the experience of the College indicates, the process is rapidly being reversed, it is imperative to increase the difficulties of the Old Plan until they at-least equal those of the new. Such a change would benefit both the college Loard in reducing the complexity of their business, and, the College in providing it with a more accurate...