Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that affluent young "Nick" Longworth emerged from Harvard. A tall, bony Yank, he went to the Spanish War, returned to practice law, worked to the top of his Legislature, reached Congress in 1909. His face is lined like bark, but he does not bite. Conservative, shrewd, popular with serious men, he has cast a long shadow at national conventions...
...Synthetics. When Carnegie Tech's President Baker asked Director Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service to speak at this bituminous coal conference, he did not expect Dr. Slosson "to make any serious contribution to the practical and technical problems" which engaged the attention of the Congress. So Dr. Slosson, learned journalist, made a brilliant survey of synthetic chemistry, in which soft coal is the great raw material...
...manners. Five o'clock in the afternoon is late enough so that most of the audience should not be prevented by academic activities from prompt arrival. Other occupations may actually detain a few but the large majority at these recitals owe a discourteous and noisy tardiness to nothing more serious than pre-prandial intertia...
...bear, again prophesied a market break. Last summer (TIME, July 23) Economist Ayres saw the stockmarket as "a great national bet against the continuation of high interest rates, and since the Federal Reserve authorities can hardly reverse their policies . . . the decision will probably be against the stockmarket with ... a serious decline in stock prices before the end of the year." With only six weeks of the year left, Economist Ayres last week failed to mention the Federal Reserve, was far less emphatic, based his bearish innuendoes on precedent. He noted...
MANHATTAN COLLEGE displayed a nice bit of sportsmanship as a result of the victory over C. C. N. Y. at the Lewisohn Stadium. This game was not only an upset in the anticipated football results but a more serious upset to the C. C. N. Y. young men who were bold enough to offer from