Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy and chairman of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, will deliver a short series of lectures on sociology at the University of Illinois from April 8 to 12, it was learned yesterday...
...great displeasure of the crowd, or so it was manifested, the fire was under control in unusually short time, being confined early to the main room, where the furniture was completely destroyed, and the walls badly blistered. A piano and a handsomely mounted boar's head, which was subsequently thrown out the window, its mouth spitting flames, were other miscellaneous items that were destroyed. Damages were estimated variously, the amounts ranging around an approximate figure of $5,000. It was rumored late last night that the Club was uninsured against fire, so that the ultimate expense will fall upon...
...succeed with the Company. Business depression and the subsequent unemployment probably affect the Telephone organization less than any other group, for in good times or in bad, the Telephone Company will do business. It is so much a part of our economic and social life that nothing short of a physical or social revolution would have any great effect on the business...
...novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there...
...courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written, or a map to be handed in. The course becomes only a series of mileposts to be passed as quickly and easily as possible...