Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question: Will Editor Lorimer soon be "one up" on Editor Long? That something was this: To the White House went Editor Lorimer, there to dine with President Hoover, then to spend the night in a White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer said nothing, except that his was a "social, personal visit." But the newsgatherers, other editors, journalists were set to thinking. During the presidential campaign, they...
Playwright Kirkland's scene is the Alton House, St. Louis. The year is 1849. The story as he tells it grows sluggish in the time required of a three-act play. This is mainly due to two long soliloquies by Frankie in the second...
...Chung Shan Chi Nien-great straight memorial road, eight miles long, 140 feet wide, leading from Nanking to Dr. Sun's new mausoleum. Therefore, China's most exalted morticians and highway contractors rested last week from their labors. Everything was in readiness for the grand three-day second funeral of China's first president, Dr. Sun. To build this impressive approach, eight contractors were allotted mile sec tions each. Soldiers were put to work as laborers. The eight contractors ruthlessly tore down peasants' houses, appropriated land. Intent on honoring simple democratic Dr. Sun, they paid little...
...Second University--Stroke, P. H. Watts '31; 7, M. M. Johnson '31; 6, H. W. Sturges '30; 5, M. R. Brownell '30; 4, A. N. Webster '31; 3, E. L. Millard '31; 2, J. W. Hallowell '31; bow, S. W. Swaim '31; cox, L. L. Wadsworth...
...Your future will be decided in the next 10 years. It is not so much a question of brains as of will. Brains are not so nearly important as will. A second class brain and a first class will will not get a whole lot farther than a first class brain and a second class will...