Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statistics cited are possibly accurate, but entirely too much reliance may be placed on their supposed significance. The classics are avowedly difficult. By that very token the students who eject them are more likely to be men of the scholarly type, men who would naturally excel in any field of scholastic endeavor. Once this is admitted a certain stigma of futility attaches itself to the statistics of the League. The organization might employ its time to better advantage in showing the value of the ancient authors to modern thought, the message which the mellowed wisdom of the ages...
...books are to be about 50 type-written pages long, which includes the considerable amount of space occupied by stage directions and character's names. They will be due on December 1, and as soon as the winner has been selected active work on the production of the show will begin...
...might be well to get more of the English 17 spirit into college courses and mix saws, hammers, and electric bulbs with the discussion of lofty theory. The result might be a few less Babbitts and, hot house lilies and a few more men of the English type; men who can close down a desk at the War Office at three in the afternoon and at five be lecturing on Aesthetics at Oxford...
...used to be a wandering and slow-moving figure, his soft voice puncturing the bang of typewriters, smoothly but insistently. He is one of those quiet people, born to be persistent and destined for success. He and his ilk are important to America because they furnish us with a type of poetry which enriches our literature without degenerating our standards. Bercovici is essentially romantic; but he is essentially wholesome. I have often wished that persons of his type could be spread more widely through the country. They would bring a new vision to the small towns of the North, South...
...York, September 20--Football shoulder guards of a type which no known equipment company manufactures and with which no college squad is now supplied must be worn by 1924 teams. This was decided at the annual interpretation meeting of the central board of football officials with the football rules committee tonight...