Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cantonese on Top...
...Hosiery companies have been making women's stockings 25 to 29½ inches long with no standard to guide them. Last week the U. S. Bureau of Standards, after measurement of 14,400 pairs, decided the standard length should be 27½ inches from heel to top. On a girl 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 130 lb., the hose will come eight inches above the knees. Stockings of this length can be held by clasp or band garters, or be rolled. Children's stockings will range from 15 to 26.5 inches. Men's socks will...
...turned bitter against God, concentrates thereafter upon homes for human beings. Fired by the love of a young woman who has sought him out in his childless house, h.9 builds one of these homes with high towers reaching up to the clouds. The master, builder even climbs to the top of his own creation, unfurls the flag at its summit, vindicates his courage before detractors below, before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play...
...Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being a tutor, these young hopefuls see in a tutorship merely apprentice work, the first step in the social ladder whose top rung is a full professorship. The third difficulty with these tutors is that they are, and again for the most part, men who have not finished their own university training and who, therefore, cannot attack the problem of becoming fit tutors because of the pressure of their own work. "Finishing...
During the night some person or persons unknown, armed with a very sharp saw, contrived to reach through the bars and saw the stem of the tree nearly in two, so that the tree itself drooped over the top of its cage. No motive could be ascribed for what was apparently an act of malicious vandalism, and there are no clues to the guilty party...