Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...badge of honor to the Members of the Boston Tea Party who destroyed the British tea in Boston Harbor. The British denounced that incident as an act of vandalism. Scuttling the American concept of Government by exalting an American Bolshevik is vandalism in my opinion of the worst type. John P. Story, Jr. M.I.T...
...small sale and equally certain to cause wonder whether a grown man can really indulge seriously in the sort of humor peculiar to Cummings. If we may believe Laura Riding and Robert Graves, however, the punctuation and spelling characteristic of Cummings are not the delirium tremens of the type-font, but originate in a wholly grave effort to make himself understood, to fix the attention of "bad readers" on the passage before them. Contemplating what has been done to Shakspere's punctuation, so that the meaning of many Shaksperian passages is often wrenched, Cummings was moved to adopt a system...
...Aldrich, in his criticism, was perfectly aware of this. But by confusing the issue of central bank vs. the old type of Federal Reserve System, with the issue of political control, he weakened his case. A new method of choosing the members of the Federal Reserve Board, and the assurance of their political independence, such as is suggested by Walter Lippmann, would make the present bill extremely good. Certainly we do not want to repeat the experiences in the Reserve System during the recent boom and present depression...
...bankrupt antique store and early training in chemistry led him to the perfume business. Knowing U. S. socialites' awe of royalty, he was careful to see that every one of his packages was liberally sprinkled with crowns, with PRINCE MATCHABELLI in large type. He died six weeks ago in Manhattan, had seven Russian princes, Conde Nast and the Hearst Press's Cholly Knickerbocker among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate...
...adrenals, sex glands, etc. After all that work Dr. Freeman concluded that hormones have a preponderant role in the total energy output of an individual as well as in the harmonious functioning of his nervous system. He found little evidence that a person's endocrine glands determine the type of his personality...