Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fallen behind the ratio; Japan, with regard to cruisers, has passed it. The U. S. delinquency falls also in the cruiser category, so that the consideration of these swift, flexible ships becomes paramount. When all cruisers authorized and appropriated for have been built, Great Britain will show a cruiser tonnage of 385,790; the U. S. of 155,000; Japan of 215,155. Thus the British-U. S. cruiser ratio will be 13 to 5, the Japan-U. S. ratio will...
...accounts of the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee show that the party faces a deficit in its treasury of approximately $1,500,000. This is an obligation resting on the shoulders of the members of the party. . . . The party should be responsible to the rank and file, and the whole system of calling upon a few rich men to make up a party deficit is wrong. . . . There must be a great many people who can afford $100 . . . $50 . . . $10 ... $5. I am quite willing to bear my full share. Countless letters come to me . . . which contain requests for printed...
Their decision: "There is some evidence to show that one of the immediate effects of communicable diseases among girls of elementary school age is a simple enlargement of the thyroid gland. However, this thyroid enlargement appears to be temporary in character. A comparatively short time, the length of which is yet undetermined, after a child recovers from a communicable disease, he is no more prone to changes in thyroid size than a child who has not had a communicable disease. In so far as elementary school children are concerned, there appears to be no ground for assuming that the ordinary...
Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
Many a student has read stories of college life and believed them...who never saw such life on the campus that is his (or her) home. Yet somehow this inconsistency is never noticed Books, the library, football, basketball, a show or two, tea dances. Citizens, studying, sleeping, eating these with a few variations make up the life of the college student. Aside from romances connected perhaps with football or basketball, these are never touched upon in magazine college life. The exceptions, and not the rule, give the periodical reader his impression of campus life...