Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about as nicely as could be expected. "It takes a tough guy to go straight" is the motto. The "tough guy" is assisted in his rectification by a beautiful girl and a priest. No doubt the benefit derived by the younger set in less polite communities from this type of picture is enormous. As entertainment most of it has been done before...
...spoke from the standpoint of anthropology: "In coldblooded, scientific language our best stock is threatened with extinction." Nevertheless, he opposed the "bias of this country in favor of the Nordic immigrant. This is a mistake. Selective immigration would prevent such a mistake and take from healthy, sound families the type we want. I believe that in Italy and in the Balkans there can be found desirable types of future Americans...
There are the President and his Cabinet, the President's biography occupying some nine and one-half lines of nine-point* type-only about half the length of most Cabinet biographies, but two lines longer than, was that of Warren G. Harding...
...civil life, of course, jaw injuries are uncommon, and facial surgery is largely of the plastic type, dealing with the soft parts of skin and tissue. The chief drawback is the slowness of the process. A case may require a dozen operations before its discharge, for these things cannot be done in a single step. The anaesthesia and prevention of infection are of special importance. Much of the early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place...
...ruling, in accordance with a proposal by Princeton, means a reversal of the University's past debating policy, which aimed, above all, at the presentation of a highly perfected and logically complete case. It will have the merit, it is expected, of developing in speakers platform ability of the type shown by the Oxford debaters, as well as the powers of logic which the American system produces...