Word: ribbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aggregate number of aspirants for posts in the activities. This is smaller than five years ago. Not only are the students becoming more precious and demanding in their choice, but they are becoming increasingly chary of sharing any part of themselves with an organization, just for a ribbon to stick in their coats. They are not grinds, or fly-by-nights; they simply know that they are going to do what they like. And more and more what they like seems to be to make use of the academic opportunities that Harvard offers...
...Among the advertised products which the Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard...
Marathon. Won by El Ouafi of France, 2 hr., 32 min., 57 sec. This, the blue ribbon event of the Olympics is a race of 26 miles, 385 yards. El Ouafi is a spindle-legged, narrow-chested Algerian. He ran despatches for the French Government during the World War, now works in an automobile factory in Paris. He is 29, a vegetarian, drinks only milk and water. When the Marathon was three-fourths finished, he was just an obscure also-ran, jugging along in tenth place, eighth place. Suddenly word reached the stadium that a dark little man was passing...
...camera and come out lifelike but such as it is, it now comes within the scope of all who have the price of a Ciné Kodak and a roll of Kodacolor. In the hand Kodacolor looks like any other film; under the microscope it looks like corduroy ribbon. The tiny corrugations are microscopic lenses, made of the film substance, running the length of the film, 559 to the inch. Different from the lens of eye glass or microscope, they resemble rather the lens-like drops of moisture which split up the sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once...
...saloons in Salisbury, and much poverty. When my mother organized the W. C. T. U. [in Salisbury] there were only two women. But it was a beginning, and they made the town dry. My mother never wore any jewelry except one pin, the gold-enameled pin of the white ribbon. When she died we put the pin on her dress, and I pledged myself to work for temperance...