Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allow, to farm surplus exporters, bounties equal to one-half the tariff rates on their commodities. There were 47 Senators opposed to debentures, 46 Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break a tie. How would he vote? asked Senators under their breath. In the Coolidge era, as Kansas Senator and presidential candidate, he had voted once for and once against the equalization fee, of which the debenture plan is the equivalent...
London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester...
...self-winding wrist watch a "perpetual motion" watch that winds itself, somewhat on the principle of the pedometer, is to be given free to a student of the University next month, according to an announcement by the Perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., New York City, manufacturers of this startling new invention...
...Tuesday, May 14, at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Professor Paul L. Dengler or Vienna. Director of the Austro-American Institute of Education will give an illustrated lecture on Children's Art as a Form of Creative Self Expression". All members of the School are invited to attend this lecture. It is open to the public...
...conducted the official service of the University at noon on Memorial Day, a service which military and patriotic organizations in Cambridge beside the University public attended. The service of last year will be long remembered. His experience of war made him an eloquent advocate of peace. His own self-sacrifice, with his high patriotism, pointed his appeal for our national participation in the solution of world problems. On the following morning, he was too ill to take his turn at the Chapel. He was to have preached here again on the 29th of May, 1929, so that the service just...