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...supporters of rent control who had seen advance copies of the study yesterday sharply criticized its principal recommendations as well as what they called its lack of "sub-stantial new research...
Last week, with the well-equipped Kwangsi armies only 25 miles away, the wily aristocratic Governor of Kwantung, General Chen Ming-chu, sent out a messenger to the Kwangsi rebels. Would the honorable enemy cease its advance on defenseless Canton in return for a sub stantial cash award? The practical-minded Kwangsi generals thought they would, but considering their favorable tactical position, the ransom must be a heavy...
...recent recommendation of the Amateur Rule Committee is accepted, tennis players will no longer be allowed to write articles on teals "sub-stantial compensation" and retails their stains as amasser. The Committee explains that it has made this decision because some players have gone so far as to make their living almost exclusively by capitalizing their reputation at tennis. But since the Committee does not believe that any player can support himself by printing wholes books on tennis, this is still to be permitted. Tennis for the amateur must be strictly an avocation; but a player may earn small sums...
...being notified that the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature ( ?7,500) had been awarded to me, I was reported to have said: 'If it is small, we (my wife and I) will spend it and be rich. If it is large, we will invest it and be sub-stantial...
...fireworks in all directions, now volleying in the policemen's backs, now in the muzzles of the band instruments, and now startling Salem's fair daughters by a reckless discharge at the windows. The band was warmly applauded along the route, and also met with a very sub stantial reception at the hands of the Colonial Club, who provided refreshments for the members. This part of the programme, as we may well imagine, was much appreciated. A special train brought the tired and happy musicians back to Boston, and 3 A. M. saw those who had not succumbed...
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