Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dedicate itself to the professions at the expense of the arts and pure sciences. One of the main-stays of man's cultural existence, the ground on which the professions are built, the liberal education will give way to the competitive demands for specialized training only with a serious loss to everyone concerned...
...sounded like a monster scoop when Ladies' Home Journal, kittenish, leggy, eagerly competitive these days under the editorship of Loring Ashley Schuler, announced that it had cornered the Paris pattern field. Magazines of massive circulation are dedicated to the serious business of dressing U. S. women in Paris clothes. Competing with Ladies' Home Journal (circulation 2,531,287) are Pictorial Review (2,459,750), McCall's (2,300,387), Delineator (1,511,573), Vogue (141,424), Harper's Bazaar...
...radios sold poorly in 1928 or that its 1928 earnings are indicative of a bad 1929. During 1928, Kolster showed a 43% increase in gross sales, but had so much difficulty in obtaining supplies that its expenses, unduly large, reduced a large gross to a small net. Much more serious, however, were the crop frosts. In Chico (Butte County) 75% of all fruit was estimated to be frost-touched. Damages included 100% of early walnuts, 95% of peaches, 100% of apricots, 90% of pears. In Sutter, Yuba, and Butte counties combined, the loss was some $10,000,000. Citrus crops...
...SERIOUS...
...rich traditions which attatch to many of these chairs adds responsibility as well as dignity and distinction to these positions. Serious hopes for the steady maintenance of these traditions joins with the congratulations due the present appointees...