Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professorship of poetry at Harvard, and he is certainly the most distinguished of all who are available. The world of American letters will cordially welcome Professor Murray when he arrives in Cambridge next fall. The exchange professorships and scholarships which are growing common in modern education are an excellent sign of the increasing internationalization of scholarship. From that the movement will spread into other fields...
...Dayton, Ohio, the National Cash Register Co. maintains a private museum. Here appear a vast array of cash registers, each with its neat descriptive sign. John Henry Patterson, developer of the company, who died in 1922, established this uniue museum years back. Into it he put old models of his own concern, and models from firms which it had absorbed or which had otherwise gone out of business. But cash registers made by successful competitors had no place in the display because, so say present N. C. R. salesmen, the National Cash Register never recognized competition, ignored it, sold...
...They have tried to get me to sign for three years, but until now I have always avoided them. I have a great distaste for acting in the movies, the whole atmosphere of a studio is oppressive. One must do everything ten times over, moving just so, turning the head carefully like this, while they try new lights and different poses. I have as much feeling as this chair when the scene is finally taken. On the stage I can always act as I please, the part doesn't matter, every part is myself...
Entries for the University wrestling championship tournament to be told on March 27 are now open. Entry books in which competitors must sign are placed in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...will be marking time, on the contrary it will be up to the minute. To the scornful who jibe at our national efficiency, the watch will mean that we are a nation of time-servers, but others will find different interpretations. Kager-gazing foreigners will see at least one sign which they can read and understand. Though time flies it is yet everywhere the same...