Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of May, if they dare to appear upon the streets. The annual straw hat joke is perpetrated so thoroughly that to the vulgar mind a soft hat seems ridiculous after a certain date. Advertising and the mob's fear of itself have set this barbaric custom beyond the reach of common sense. If the boot and shoe dealers succeed in their resolution of attaching another lichen to the American moss-back, he on this side of the Atlantic will soon be unbearable...
...corresponding increase in fellowships and scholarships granted by the University is to some extent an extenuating circumstance. It arranges matters so that the brilliant student at least is exempt from the common blight. It does not, however, reach the large number of men who plan to put themselves through college and who will be unable to devote their full time and energy to their scholastic work. These men cannot keep their grades up to the high standard necessary to obtain financial recognition from the University, because much of their time is occupied in earning enough money to keep them...
Potential undergraduate members of the University will not receive the news of an increase in the tuition fee with endless cheers. They will wish to know why an institution with so large an endowment cannot keep its tuition fee down to a level within the reach of everyone who wishes to take advantage of its peculiar educational traditions. They will probably feel that they are being made to bear an additional expense which is properly not theirs, and they will wonder why the authorities find it necessary to raise the tuition fifty per cent in five years--from two hundred...
...have decided that the nation must live within its own resources. The Government has no intention to seek outside foreign sources for a loan. We must then see that sources of production in our country are revived; that commerce and industry reach a state of flourishing development-conditions which are necessary if we are to supply our needs by ourselves. Economic stability once established, we can apply constructive plans for social reform, which is the aim of our Government...
...volume of traffic, 1924 should rank only after the extraordinary rail way year of 1923. Carloadings this year are expected to reach 49,000,000 cars-about 1,000,000 less than 1923, but 4,000,000 over the heavy year of 1920. Loadings of merchandise, miscellaneous and less-than-carload freight l have tended to increase during the past year, while a decline has been witnessed in coal, ore, coke...