Word: producted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. James Weldon Johnson is a 55-year-old product of Jacksonville, Fla. He attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...
Great traditional events have a way of rolling around year after year without the slightest wear on their novelty. Thus the Freshman Red Book editors suddenly announce the distribution of their product, and the world, or specifically the world of 1930, awaits with pleasurable expectancy the first journalistic fruits the literateurs among its members. Old Mother Advocate, who refused to enter a non-scouting agreement with her doubtful offspring, Lampy and the H. A. A. News will offer contracts to the Prologue Editor and the Epilogue Editor, and the CRIMSON will open its customary doors next fall...
...reasons why these institutions, Harvard especially should be the last to take up this question are plain. Colleges do not purchase large quantities of raw material and their finished product is supposed to be mental and spiritual rather than material...
...Olson notes, jazz calls for more than a dilatory attention. There is the foundation to be laid--apparently eight long years--and then there is the super-structure which makes the building so attractive. The completed product is the triumph of instinct over intelligence. But a twelve year course, even with a maestra's baton in view, is rather long and arduous. Aborigines accomplished similar ends with much less difficulty...
Searchers among old U. S. Senate files discovered a petition presented to the Senate in 1912. This petition had been circulated by the National Anti-Third Term League, an anti-Roosevelt by-product of the 1912 campaign. It bore only the signature of the late Senator Henry W. Blair, then president of the Anti-Third Term League. Since a petition with only one signer presumably would not have been presented, the inference was that the other signatures were not preserved...