Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus brought together brings out a number of interesting facts. The number of degrees has shown a steady increase: between 1873 and 1909, 608 degrees were conferred: between 1909 and 1916, 355: between 1916 and 1926, although the number naturally declined during the war years, 543. These figures undoubtedly reflect a growing appreciation of the importance of training in research in all the many fields of knowledge...
...significance of such stock market activities is that they reflect the continuance of easy money conditions in the U. S. and the usual springtime revivification of business...
...gala performance of Barrie's one-act plays, staged by a society of amateurs, was crowded with brilliantly uniformed foreign officers and brilliantly gowned women. The street lights reflect a miniature Paris, but in some respects more beautiful because the harbor, with its many foreign warships, illuminates this extraordinary Yangtze metropolis...
...happiness comes to man, the hero finds the heroine's lips, Labor and Capital strike hands, the city destroyed by evil counsel of Efficiency is to be rebuilt-how, is not divulged. Ufa might better have shut the eyes of its great cameras than permit them to reflect nonsense in such grandeur...
...textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...