Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enter the teaching profession. Law claims six and Medicine three time as many as this, the one occupation with which the graduating men have had close connection. What is the cause of this reluctance to continue in academic careers? Does the comparatively limited financial income of the teacher stand wholly responsible? Or has four years in college resulted in a desire to get out into what is loosely termed the World...
...gave Henry a subscription to the Book-of-the-Month Club, that tells you the book you have to read every month, to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month." Thus spake Lorelei, in admiration for what she knew to be a Step Upward, and a long, free, women's stride toward Higher Things. Her simple admiration would be even greater had she known that the movement, toward selectivity in contemporary literature had only just begun. In 1927 there was no Crime Club...
...Norma Talmadge's husband will be there too-fleshy Joseph M. Schenck, the cinema producer (United Artists). He is a Hooverite from California. Another California Hooverite, Lawyer John L. McNab of San Francisco, has been chosen to stand up and nominate Candidate Hoover...
...Sorlie of North Dakota reported that his State would send a motor squadron and that he would lead it. Chairman William Hirth of the Corn Belt Federation reported from Des Moines, la., that the 1,000,000 farmers represented by himself and colleagues would "make a last stand for equality of opportunity . . . at Kansas City"; that if either Mr. Coolidge or Mr. Hoover were nominated, it would "result in a wholesale bolt of the party by the farmers...
Mouse Trap. The bizarre opinion that valor is a mouse trap was quaintly justified by the circumstances which caused Chang Tso-lin to withdraw from Peking last week, without fighting any final pitched engagement or making a theatrical "last stand." Circumstances...