Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saturday is a half-holiday, and perhaps for that reason there was no time for parley. On the word of three members of the Cambridge police force--that they were the dramatic experts of that organization goes without saying--John M. Casey, who issues the thoushalt-nots to the citizens of Boston, decided that the performance was "unfit for presentation". To communicate this decision to the Mayor's office was the work of one moment, and to publish the prohibition of the play of another...
Last week Sculptor Brancusi won his case. In its decision the Customs Court dogmatically defined art: "It is a work of art by reason of its symmetrical shape, artistic outlines and beauty of finish." Even the most wretched of logicians knows enough not to repeat the same term in both subject and definition ("art" -"artistic outline"). But Sculptor Brancusi had his money refunded...
Cigarets are headed for a 100,000,000,000-year, if output of November and December is proportional to production during the first ten months of the year, which shows a 9.3% increase over corresponding period in 1927. Reason: women. Cigar production...
...blind acceptance of the idea, and the decision of the Department of Economics in regard to its introductory course is reassuring on that score. Other courses that tried the experiment last year have decided to hold optional meetings during the next Reading Period and there is no longer any reason to fear that it will be adopted or retained where it would be actually detrimental...
...annual holiday production of the Harvard Dramatic Club takes the boards and bows tonight under the appropriate title of "Fiesta." There is no reason to doubt that it will measure up to the standard set by previous productions of the club. The lines and settings are encouraging to the peculiar zest of amateur acting, and the oldest living playgoer cannot remember when a drama by native talent had no honor in its own country...