Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Search-warrants for harems will be the order of the day in Turkey if a movement to repeal the Turkish Volstead Act succeeds. The Ministry of Finance estimated that a revenue of $3,000,000 will be available if the sale of liquor is authorized again. The proposal is to permit the manufacture, sale and taxation of liquor, but forbid any sale to women...
...cannot judge religion by church attendance. I think the spirit of Harvard, its goal of search for truth, its ideals, its traditions, its motto are a religion. God is love. The kindly spirit of Harvard men is not usually seen in other colleges. Certainly not in provincial state universities. I think Harvard is the most religious student body in America. By religious I mean with the sanest understanding of Truth...
...book contains all the technical information that a mechanical engineer in general practice is likely to desire, presented, in the most concise form possible, by specialists whose experience permits them to write authoritatively. It is intended for those in search of specific information...
...hardly be encouraging to the observant educator. To him the time given to student opinion must seem wasted, that opinion itself farcical, and the spirit that offered it one of hypocrisy. He has sailed many months, he has sailed many weeks over uncharted seas of hypothesis on a search for the Snark of serious student opinion, and lo! it is only a Boojum. He may well be excused if he decides that his is a thankless task, and determines that the student should be taught rather than educated...
...however, been learned that the authors of the book, Joe deGanahl '25 and W. L. White '24, have wandered from Broadway to the British Museum in search of material. Janet, the heroine of the play, is said to be the product of diligent study on the part of the co-authors in the character of the modern actress. The British Museum, on the other hand, has yielded the secrets of the unusual life and tragic death of Don John, Spanish Viceroy of California about 1640. The main plot, which incidentally contains numerous other plots, is the result of the meeting...