Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard College, the Freshman Dean and the Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers read them. The chairman marks the passages which will be of help to the Advisers, and these are copied and sent to each Adviser, together with the other information concerning his advisees. As a rule these letters from parents and teachers are very helpful, and give just the kind of personal information that we need. The task of reading all this correspondence is he easy one, but the results are more than worth the labor. Occasionally, the often dreary monotony of going through these letters...
...accomplishments were limited to the writing of a book, all the punctuation of which was in the last dozen or so pages, who sold warming pans at a profit in the West Indies, and who snatched from thin air a nobleman's title. The king who enjoyed a posthumous rule is dead, and the title of the new one is not "Sir", but "Bossy...
...wise retrenchment; 2) Money has grown sufficiently plentiful in Tokyo so that large issues of securities are again being placed there, notably the recent Osaka Municipal Loan; 3) Tourist spending in Japan is on the boom; 4) Japanese interests in Manchuria are prospering under the firm if iniquitous rule of Marshal Chang...
Died. Charles M. Kittle, 47, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Chicago. He worked his way from section gang water boy to senior vice president of Illinois Central Railroad from which he resigned to rule the great mail order company...
Wroth with the treatment accorded a New York night club by Prohibition officers armed with axes, the Evening World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning...