Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tested by the collegiate system, as our English universities have proven by long experience", adds Professor Sisson. But, as Professor, Richardson says in "Study of the Liberal College" (1924): "Of course there are great differences between the various colleges . . . Some of them, such as Balliol and New College, have set themselves toward a marked degree of scholastic excellence . . . It is very difficult for a college to change its status. In the first place it has acquired a constituency of a fairly definite type . . ." The Harvard plan, painstakingly whitewashed as it has been of all traces of Anglomania, has on this...
...with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed, ludicrously titled, finely acted, richly set, her languor is slightly more girlish and less exciting than that which, in recent films, has ravished U. S. manhood...
With eyes bandaged a Jew and a Nordic lay with ocular fraternity in Manhattan's Eye & Ear Hospital last week. The Nordic, one Bert Ferguson, had one glass eye. The Jew, one Charles E. Greenblatt, had a gauze-packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that...
Time graciously justified the Most Bullish Moment. General Motors did set new records, did eventually climb to a tantalizing 224⅛. But by the time the stock had reached Bull Raskob's figure, earnings had also skyrocketed. Last week, when President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. announced quarterly profits of $79,266,639, nine months' profits of $240,534,613 (record for any corporation in peace time), investors hastily calculated values. In nine months, General Motors had earned $13.42 a share. Expected earnings for the full year raised the figure close to $18. Bull Raskob's formula...
...whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...