Word: tape
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from Waukegan will scream at the wind, and their little brothers...
Although this is his first year of collegiate competition, Reid was the first Harvard runner to finish in the Intercollegiates this fall, coming in thirteenth, and he came in third in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet at New Haven, being the first Crimson man to cross the tape. He placed first or second in the other meets in which the team participated this fall...
...Pearl of Great Price. Released, at last, from an eight year entanglement with red tape, The Pearl of Great Price reveals itself in the theatre, a cheaply glamorous morality spectacle. The Pearl, symbol of maidenhood, is sole heritage of a pulchritudinous orphan, Pilgrim. With zest, relish and a cast of two hundred, the production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns...
...strength of the University team, however, lies in the five men who have finished in a cluster in nearly every race this season. These runners Lesle Flaksman '29, Edward Gordon '27, W. B. King '27, T. L. Mayhew '27 and L. J. Novograd '27 should arrive at the tape Monday afternoon near enough together and soon enough to subdue Harvard's rivals for the team title...
...Chapman Jr. '27 and F. J. Otis '27 in their presentation of the affirmative arguments brought out the fact that a tax rebate would increase business prosperity. There would be much red tape connected with the Mellon-Coolidge proposal, affirmed Otis, because the 15 per cent rebate would be subtracted from the 1927 taxes and would not necessitate any paying back of money by the government...