Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work. The definite knowledge that many of the faculty are turning the period to purposes that will later have a published reality, may be not unjustly interpreted as evidence that the majority are doing so. Books yet unborn will stand as testimony for at least one excellent by product of the Reading Period...
...time, taste, or abilities do not allow him to enter into either the major sports or the majority of minor sports has found in squash racquets a game exactly adapted to his needs. That participation therein should be hampered by inadequate facilities is a new condition, an unfortunate by-product of new popularity...
...robot has not yet come, but H. G. Wells sees it approaching along with the complete domination of the business men. So educators hasten to justify their product to the new monarchs by pointing out civilization's debt for the truths discovered by scientists, and the progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
...until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that $8,000,000 had been "wasted" by the Queens sewer builders. It developed that the only kind of sewer pipe that would meet Chief Engineer Rice's specifications was a patented product for which one John M. Phillips, good friend of President Connolly's, had the sole sales agency in Queens...
...International Festival for Contemporary Music last June in Frankfurt. But when Conductor Willem Mengelberg looked over the score, he pronounced it too difficult for just a week's rehearsing. Therefore, Bartók played his Rhapsody. The substitution was unfortunate. The Rhapsody is 24 years old now, the product of an immature genius. Bartók the Original began like all great composers as an imitator. First Brahms was his idol, then Liszt, then Wagner, then Richard Strauss by reason of his Zarathustra, then Liszt again. It seemed peculiarly ironic last week that the Rhapsody, fruit of the Liszt...