Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally I wish that TIME were printed with clearer type on unglazed paper like the World's Work, and that it had a map with each number showing the places mentioned therein...
...wish to assure him that there is no university in the country where it is easier to get by with a minimum of work. It is an actual fact that throughout my entire four years I read no more, in the aggregate, than fifty small pages of large type, and that I skipped eighty per cent of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude! Harvard '21, Providence, R. I. --"Notes and Queries," American Mercury...
Besides answering verbal questions the Information Desk is the recipient of all written requests for information. The most unusual specimen of this type was received last week addressed to the "Harvard Lore of You". This momentarily baffled even the omniscient mind of the Information Desk until the meaning was made clear by an inquiry concurring the Harvard Law Review made by a person with a strong New England accent. The letter was from a prominent firm of lawyers and it is supposed that the mistake came in dictation on a too literal acceptance of super fluonser...
...results so far obtained. . . . Of the 50 [improved] cases, one has gone five years without a return of the disease, others from two to three; but most of the patients are too recent to enable a definite opinion. . . . Unfortunately it is quite impossible at present to determine the type of cancer which will be favorably influenced, so that no guarantee of improvement can be offered to any individual case. Some people bear the lead injections without serious disturbance, while others show evidence of poisoning so promptly that the treatment has to be abandoned. . . . "The gist of the matter is, then...
...Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type, carefully supervised so that "each house, however simple, shall be an artistic gem." Though great estates were being planned-golf clubs, yacht club, huge hotel, casinos-particular attention was being paid to modest private establishments. The public was invited to buy lots as low as $4,000. But "background counts...