Word: temperal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sporting writers have it, marks the end of a memorable Commencement week. Long after the names of this or that speaker or graduate have been forgotten, the memory of the heat will linger. Honors and oratory, spreads and dinners have developed a sense of weariness and have evoked bad temper rather than enthusiasm...
...opinions?on participation in the World Court, that expectation is surely being justified. Daily, organizations and individuals of every degree of importance and unimportance are voicing their opinions on the proposal. Meanwhile Senatorial doctors are going busily about taking the public pulse, administering stimulants or narcotics, according to their temper...
...ROOM WITH A VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists?is the background for a good part of the book...
Three main considerations should, however, serve to temper Mr. Babbitt's complacency. In the first place financial conditions in Western Europe, and especially in Germany, are in many respects becoming more rather than less chaotic, and until the credit and currency of this important part of the world are stabilized, America too must suffer in some degree. Secondly, certain fundamental lines of business in this country aro not yet on a satisfactory basis, chief among these being our vast agricultural, coal and railroad industries, and the current housing and rent situation. Thirdly, the cycle of business, now evidently rising...
...final two hours on Sunday morning were eminently characteristic of the temper of the two bodies. In the House, the scene of prize-fights and vaudeville repartee, Republican made love to Democrat and vice versa, while the Marine Band played and various members rendered vocal selections. The Senate was--the Senate. To the very end partisan, snapped at partisan and the body finally disbanded without even the usual vote of thanks to the presiding officers. So died the Sixty-seventh Congress, just as it had lived...