Word: regard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great question is, however, with all of the small details considered and finally arranged, whether a fracture of the present American educational tradition will successfully result in a more wieldy form. Much doubt has been expressed in regard to the possibility of forming small, homogeneous groups out of the large heterogeneous mass of the College. It is a question of whether or not the experiments are socially practicable. The habit of becoming segregated into small groups such as the present fraternities has become so ingrained in the make-up of the undergraduates of today that the transplantation of the English...
...capital ship tonnage for Great Britain, the U. S. and Japan at 5-5-3. The Geneva Conference of 1927 was called to determine whether this ratio could be applied to smaller ships. No results were obtained. Since 1921 the U. S. has fallen behind the ratio; Japan, with regard to cruisers, has passed it. The U. S. delinquency falls also in the cruiser category, so that the consideration of these swift, flexible ships becomes paramount. When all cruisers authorized and appropriated for have been built, Great Britain will show a cruiser tonnage...
...brother Simon Guggenheim, Republican Senator from Colorado (1907-13), is also a great giver-$3,500,000 for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (for his dead son) for scholarships for advanced study abroad, without regard to sex, race, creed or color...
...your issue of Dec. 24 is a notice of the absorption of the Shredded Wheat Co. by the National Biscuit Co. which gives considerable space to the story of Henry D. Perky's invention of shredded wheat. From first to last this story shows almost no regard for the facts. Since it is the story which has with small variations been used as advertising for many years, I want to suggest what poor copy these careless fabrications make as compared with the true story...
...movies on the American public has been greater than any other force. . . . My sympathies and my appreciation will always be ... opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated on the bastardization of the cinema not only with wearisome nonsense in regard to sex and romance but now with the talking pictures, the aim of which latter apparently is to exhume old stage plays which can be reproduced poorly and cheaply, yet be made to pay well...