Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer wasna sae sair mutilatit as that for Sept. 24, an' I hae read some o' it. I see ye say that Jix addressed "the gaping Ayrshire yokels." That's a fine sentence. I hae nae doot the chap that wrote it read...
...Senator Robinson is so keen about quoting my immortal prose, here is a line for him : In the present sloppy Democratic shambles, dry ice Robinson wears the harassed look of an Anti-Saloon League sitting timorously on the edge of his chair at a bartenders' convention. Let him turn that on one of his audiences and then try to giggle out of the applause...
Perhaps a word as to the reason for the existence of the proctorial system at Harvard may not be malapropos. In short, the success of an honor system invariably depends upon solidarity of student opinion, which in turn presupposes a unified undergraduate body. At Harvard neither exists. The experiments with honor systems at certain other large universities have often been far from successful, and have shown that all concerned are much happier with proctors in charge of examinations...
...turn of the century, the New York Herald of the late James Gordon Bennett the younger ran a "Personal" column in which men and women advertised for companions. Specimen advertisements...
Street car operators and manufacturers of their equipment, who were holding their yearly convention in Cleveland last week, were delighted with the words of their chief speaker-Owen D. Young, lawyer Chairman of the General Electric Co. His company sells service to electric power & light companies, which in turn sell current to street railways...