Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, his knowledge of languages procured him with the British G. H. Q. a post easy enough to permit him to write three books. The War over, he still found need to work at the mills three days a week, writing the last three days. Many a U. S. student remembers his U. S. lectures in the autumn of 1927. Now Author Maurois lives in Paris with his wife and three children...
...Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
...John Doe," 24, 5 ft. 8 in., light complexion, posing as a college student, for the murder of a gas station attendant...
Studying electricity did not prevent Steinmetz from craving companionship. He joined two student societies, the first a mathematical one where he was amid songs and beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work...
Fable-famed is the lesson that one stick can be easily broken while a bundle of sticks defies the strongest giant. Every high school student is told that the word "religion" is derived from the Latin "re" and "ligo," meaning "to bind together." Last week a poster with an illustration of a British chieftain explaining the stick lesson to tribesmen, and with text expounding its application to religion, won the first prize of $1,000 in a "Why Go to Church?" contest. Sponsor of the competition was the "Church Group" of members of the New York Advertising Club, voluntarily offering...