Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disarmament attitude crystallized sharply when the League of Nations Secretariat made public last week a memorandum from the U. S. practically negativing all the recommendations of the League of Nations Preparatory Commission for a disarmament conference TIME, May 24 et seq.). A British memorandum backing up the U. S. stand was reputed on high authority to be in preparation. Frenchmen felt that the slim chances for holding a League disarmament conference were evaporating...
Asked concerning the growth of Hollywood, Mr. Lyon said. "20 years ago, Hollywood was nothing but orange groves and fig trees. It has grown with the motion picture business. Where 20 years ago there was plowed ground and fruit trees, six and seven story Buildings now stand. Hollywood is just one large institution. Boston is a city where there are many industries, many manufacturing plants and people engaged in many trades. Hollywood is different, It centers around the moving picture business entirely. Very little that doesn't pertain to pictures, happens out there...
...people on the streets of the Square today are not those of 20 years ago," declared Dan, the blind newsman who has run his stand opposite the rotunda for that length of time, "and not only the people have changed but the Square itself...
...after all the alumni, who were mature at the time of the war, and who would now contribute toward the memorial, are not intending to commemorate the heroism of the dead so much for those who personally knew them, as for the many generations through which the memorial will stand? We believe ourselves to be in closer touch with these generations than are the alumni. Furthermore, they are building a church where not they, but we, and the future students and officers, are to worship; and they are building it in the Yard, where they may visit once a year...
...workmen's 60-foot hoisting tower (with elevator for bricks, mortar, etc.). The flag flew there bravely by day, and drooped there darkly by night. The Girl Scouts and local War veterans protested, but nothing was done until one night last week, unable to stand it longer, Girl Scout Mildred Sorenson, 15, climbed the hoisting tower and chopped the flag free. Coming down she lost her hold, fell 40 feet, never regained consciousness. Lexington, Neb., felt better posted on flag etiquette...