Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present instance, where the individual's interests coincide so directly with those of the prospective employer. To be sure, only a very small fraction of even the leading contestants can expect to benefit in so direct a way, but the experiment is in the right direction and offers one means of solution to a difficult problem...
...highly spiced article of sure-fire appeal to a public which wants its college atmosphere belching fire and brimstone," say the Crimson editorial columns. Quite right; but Mr. Roberts' genial resume of Harvard life can hardly be at the same time "a shower of garbage loosed upon innocent victims." Nor is it exactly "lurid," nor yet a "diabolically clever masterpiece of caricature...
...HAIL FELLOW, THAR SHE BLOWS! Correspondence from our reporter covering the Staten Island Expedition, with special attention to good fellowship and all the jolly things one sees-By wireless to The New Yorker Times Company and by wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys...
...suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves the right to make a cash settlement at any time after eleven installments have been paid, this settlement to consist of a refund with the generous interest of 37-3%. This repayment-with-interest appears to have overshadowed the jewelry portion of the business. Hundreds of dollar-a-week investors have...
...Story. Black Hagar flung the man's body over her shoulder and strode toward the heart of the swamp?"tearing a way through the matted growth with her right hand while she steadied the body with her left. But this position caused her to advance with lowered head, and eyes fixed on the pools of shallow water through which she waded. At first this pleased her, for the little mirrors flung back pictures of sky seen through swaying cypresses, with small white clouds tangled in their branches. But presently she became aware of the reflection of an object that projected...