Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletics was formerly the incentive that led athletes to take up boxing. While these men were young they boxed in the local gymnasium in a keen but friendly manner which developed that instructive knack of ring generalship that is so necessary in the making of a champion. This type of boxer was the product of the city neighborhood athletic club...
...Stoddard went on to emphasize the importance of physical fitness for University students. Speaking of the failure of Crimson athletic teams he said, "Get a better type of Freshman and the victories will follow." He continued with the statement that physical fitness is necessary for an alert brain as well as athletics...
...that the President wanted Mr. Warren as someone to whom he was close, someone he could rely on, now that Mr. Hughes is to depart. Intellectually he is probably the ablest man whom Mr. Coolidge has added to the Cabinet. Suave of face, almost good looking, the broad-headed type of statesman, like Borah or Underwood, he is able, active, arduous - especially in mind. He might have had a place in Harding's cabinet, but Harding, the man of good heart, was perhaps a little repelled by Warren's swift-mindedness. The departure of Mr. Hughes breaks...
...Houghton for three years past has been Ambassador at Berlin. In a way Mr. Houghton is in accordance with the usual type of man appointed to the Court of St.James's. He was born in Cambridge, Mass. He was educated at Harvard. He is wealthy enough not to mind the fact that his salary of $17,500 will, at London, be only a drop in the bucket of his expenses. On the other hand, he is not a literary man, nor is he a publisher, a politician, an editor, a lawyer-but a manufacturer...
From Paris came a report that Fashion has once again laid hold on Art. The account is that all fashionable women must have portraits of themselves, lifesize, hanging in their drawing rooms. It was recalled that Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt recently brought a portrait of this type...