Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other speakers that morning will be Will Hays, who is to the movie industry what Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis is to baseball, and Robert Moses, New York Park Commissioner. Hays' topic is to be "Keeping the Mind Young Through Motion Pictures," while Moses will tell how to keep the mind young through parks and playgrounds...
...Lewis has done well not to take this lying down. He has evidently asked himself what he thinks, and his altogether natural cry of "You tell me!" has waited long. In challenging the college publications of the last four years to uncover "a single editorial or article of any profundity. . . . on the subject of education," he no doubt remembers that these publications, likewise in his predicament, can only echo his cry. At the same time, he should arouse the Crimson to point to its issue of September 18, 1936, in which the editors reproduced in full the Tercentenary Oration...
Allied also disclosed the total of its U. S. Government holdings - $21,000,000. That left $39,000,000 of miscellaneous investments. Allied long claimed that divulging these holdings would hurt its trade advantages. Last week it looked as though SEC, in persuading Allied to tell all, had promised to keep certain facts secret. Allied's report to SEC, which was made public by the New York Stock Exchange, still left $4,000,000 worth of holdings unexplained...
...team in a row. Not the beef trust that Cornell was, nor boasting quite such satellites as wingback Peck or end Holland, Army is, nevertheless, a high-riding organization, led by Wilson and Long. The Service elevens always hit the hardest of all the teams, as any player will tell, and this Army team will certainly give Bob Green and his men a real Soldiers Field battle...
...chapters which tell what has been decoded from the tablets. Dr. Chiera gives a fascinating, chatty picture of the daily lives of the ancient Mesopotamian peoples, which he says are now better known than the ordinary lives of the later Greeks and Romans despite their elegant literature. Born to a Baptist minister in Italy in 1885, Dr. Chiera studied theology but plumped for archeology, joined the University of Chicago staff in 1927. Thin, slope-shouldered and bearded, he resembled the popular idea of a scientist, was noted for boundless energy and painstaking preciseness in his work...