Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...
...Here's one for you?listen to this: Ashland Avenue Baptist, printed in Lexington, Ky., on the front page of a church publication in a box of heavy black type: 'Recently the papers published how Governor Smith came near to a serious accident driving fifty miles an hour down Broadway while intoxicated. He was driving the car himself practicing his wet gospel...
...SERIOUS...
Like many another international tycoon, Matchmaker Kreuger is under 50. The son of an unsuccessful matchmaker, Ivar Kreuger went to the Swedish Polytechnic Institute, became an engineer. Kreuger & Toll started business as an engineering firm. But, when Father Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling...
...rather serious casualties were the aftermath of a strenuous scrimmage held yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field. G. C. Holbrook '30 sustained a leg injury which it is feared will keep him out for the season, while J. W. Rotter '30 will probably be kept on the side lines for a month with an injured...