Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parsons, President of the F. W. Woolworth Co., sharply disagreed with the fears for future business reflected recently by falling security prices. In his opinion, merchandise prices are stable, merchants well financed and not overstocked and shipments prompt...
...since the war his salary has been approximately $150 a year. He was on the point of being forced to give up his researches when the invitation came. Professors G. H. F. Nuttall and Thornley Gardner, of Cambridge, together with a number of other eminent men, have given prompt and generous acceptance to the Austrian's work, and some have called it the greatest biological discovery of the present century. Conservative scholars, however, are demanding more conclusive proof...
Strong wills and great determination must be exercised to carry through midyear resolutions now that the dreaded fortnight is over and no impulse remains for prompt action. Widener Library has become a familiar rendezvous for many, for the first time; but its advantages are soon forgotten after examinations, and the faults, though few, linger in the memory...
...rule changing the number of players from seven to six and various others adopted last year have made the American game more like the Canadian. Canadian hockey, individualistic, open, spectacular, is fundamentally opposed to the team play and passing game that Harvard has always used. Sporting writers predicted the prompt exit of the Winsor system down the back-stairs of obscurity. But the three man defence was developed, and the team sat on its high pinnacle as firmly as ever. This year more new rules have caused the further progress of American hockey towards the Canadian, and the Winsor system...
...people, however, as evinced in the recent election, have thought differently of the Sixty-seventh. What their real opinion is, cannot be crystallized into clear expression. But Congress still has, until March 4, an opportunity to display talents largely lethargic in the past two years. Prompt action taken on the important bills pending, especially the Dyer anti-lynching bill already passed by the House will regain for them some of their lost prestige. The dying gladiators have a last opportunity to salute His Majesty--the Average Citizen--with something else than mere appropriations and mental inertia...