Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first night riot from the point of view of indignant Boston as follows: "This fatal mistake turned the play into a howling failure. The Harvard men came, in numbers large enough to fill the boxes on each side of the stage. . . . They were mostly 'cubs' of the crazily merry type of students out for a lark and determined to guy everybody with in jostling and hearing distance...
More than that: the final value of the new tendency cannot be estimated from debates of this sort so accurately as from argument over the usual type of question. If debate on propositions of a serious nature derives new yigor from these experiments with humor, and questions of importance can come to be presented in a more keen and pleasing manner, the art will have been greatly refined. Many steps forward have been taken within the last few years by recognizing the important role of wit in debating. Therein lies the true worth of this less solemn tendency. Dwight...
...specify several different kinds of jobs was that it was expected that a great many men would ask primarily for jobs as tutors or tutor companions. It is probable that more than 60 percent of the men who are registered for summer work have asked for consideration on this type of work...
...That's all very well," thought the rural education division, "but the statistics do not reflect the quality of these teachers that are being turned out, nor the type of position that constitutes nearly a fourth of those 742,172 teaching positions in the U. S." Nearly a fourth of all the positions are in one-teacher schools, and "it would be hazardous to guess" how many one-teacher school jobs are accurately described by the following hypothetical advertisement...
Clearly the new dailies have found a new public and have published as plainly as their own type and omnipresent cuts, the propensities of more than a million formerly uninterpreted people. And it is the unique character of their public that gives these tabloids an uncertain significance. If they were engaged in converting to their standard readers long inured to fine print, one would have little hesitation in condemning them. But they seem to be catering to other readers, hitherto up served, and thus to assume besides the vices of time-servers and the virtues of discoverers...