Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last August the Shipping Board put on the auction block its two best Atlantic properties-the U. S. Lines and the American Merchant Line. The bids submitted were announced last month. High bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...
...contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It was unfortunate and misleading, for the Misses Le Galliénne and Yurka have scarcely anything except their sex and profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons and contrasts were inevitable. For example: Eva Le Galliénne's figure is lissom; it permits her to play Peter Pan. It is im portant and eloquent in the theatre; she and her Civic Repertory...
After that debate, Evolution seemed to slip quietly out of the public press and mind. But actually fundamentalists and anti-evolutionists were banding together, distributing propaganda. In California blossomed the Bryan Bible League; in Philadelphia, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association. Elsewhere in the U. S. started the American Anti-False Science League, the Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools...
Customers. Chief purchasers of copper have been makers of electrical equipment, public utility companies, and the automobile and building industries. The following table (1927 figures) shows leading copper customers (in tons...
...universities is highly probable in the future. In any case it seems hardly fair to criticise the business man for taking a college degree as representing a standard of intelligence above the average. The question is more one which demands action from our educator more than from the general public...