Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third treaty of this type was signed by Mr. Hughes and P. V. G. Assarsson, Counselor of the Swedish Legation at Washington...
...kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*-a manufacturer's view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect...
...best, as the editorial of the present number suggests, to let each type of ability have its day. When a stroke for progess may be driven home, let it fall clean and ring hard; when poems and stories are to be the service of the Advocate to its contributors and to the college, let the work be as lively and adopt as the Advocate's work regularly is, and the service in either case will be a true one. Meanwhile, the Advocate has all too little of a type of writing which lies between the styles discussed above...
...brilliant example of the type of essay we mean is the editorial which has inspired the reviewer to such discursiveness. The balance of learning and originality is admirably struck by it, and its observations have a considerable importance. Another essay, Mr. La Farge's "The Incompleat Angler", is an example of the same class. Mr. La Farge writes refreshingly and well, with a gift for impressions and a skill of style which are unusual. "For reflection (he says) is to the true, inward charm of fishing as the vague ideas that float half-recorded through one's brain when good...
...greatest dangers of a "building boom," apart from the loss of invested capital always involved, is the rickety and shoddy type of construction erected. The speculative builder wants to finish his house and unload it on someone else for a quick and substantial profit. His attitude toward material, plans and workmanship is apt to be entirely subservient to this desire. So long as a house will look all right until someone buys it, he cares little what shape it will foe in a few years hence...