Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides those undetained by actuality there is the class of persons who have a valid reason for a delayed arrival at these twilight recitals. At slight hardship to this more worthy class but for great benefit to the meticulously prompt, a more rigid system of ushering seems advisable. Under the present regulations a person is allowed admittance to the main auditorium as soon as he arrives within the outer gate, no matter what is going on inside. As a consequence, the first half hour of the recital is accompanied be the incessant rattling of an archal lock and the resulting...
Radioactive dust and emanations entered his system. They attacked his bones, prevented his marrow from making red blood cells. Aplastic anemia developed. Sojourn in high altitudes and 13 blood transfusions were useless. To void the radium that was in him would require, he once figured, 3,520 years. But eight years was all that he lived after he discovered what was wrong with...
Along with the change in size, Liberty offers to advertisers a wide variety of display shapes. The lineage system is to be abolished, and all advertising based on fractions of a page, ⅔, ½, ⅓, ¼, 1/6, ⅛ (1/12), (1/24), If an advertiser wants to buy one-third page, he has his choice of a tall, thin space (one full column) or a square space (one-half of two columns). Thus, the flexibility of the Liberty scheme. Two-page spreads can also be purchased in several fractions and shapes, in rotogravure...
...bevy of self-appointed sociologists who make it there business to compare every phase of American education with the English system which has made the Anglo-Saxon race predominant on every playing field, battle field, and tropical trading post in the world will be hard put to it to draw a moral from the most recent news flash emanating from the Towers of Oxford. Within the week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must...
...hoped that this exhibition of collegiatism will not go unheeded by the group of anglo-philes who point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite...