Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excellence is not immoderate. If there is blame it must be laid at Miss Kummer's door. There is a lack of laughter. The company is much the same group that placed The Night Boat and Good Morning, Dearie among the tallest and most enduring of their type, viz., Louise Groody, Oscar Shaw, Ada Lewis, John E. Hazzard. Miss Lewis and Mr. Hazzard do much to 'demonstrate that they can be funny under any circumstances. Miss Groody and Mr. Shaw make excellent love in their normal innocuous style. The Parisian music survives as the most satisfactory contribution to a play...
...with a mechanism for counteracting the effect of the rotation of the earth. Since the telescope must be rotated toward the west at the rate of one turn in 24 hours and this with great delicacy, the ball bearings on which the telescope moves must be of the highest type, and all parts of the telescope must be made with great precision. In addition the astronomer must provide his telescope with a special correcting device so that any irregularities in the mechanism can be at once compensated for by hand...
...result has been the "ready-made- newspaper-a paper full of syndicated news (i. e., identical articles furnished from one source to a large group of papers), syndicated "features", even syndicated editorials made of "boiler plate" (articles set in type on the face of meta plates, a column in width), "matrices" (composition molds bearing the imprint of type, pictures, etc., into which it is only necessary to pour type metal) anc "patent insides" (sheets of newspaper printed on one side, with articles, advertisements, etc., furnished principally to country newspapers. On the blank side the editor places his own articles advertisements...
...position of definite standing in the American theatrical world. If the plays selected up to date are open to the criticism of appealing more to an audience of a distinctly intellectual cast, they have at least most effectively preserved the club from falling into the banal outworn comedy type of organization so common in other universities...
...influence those of the University is a matter of conjecture. Probably the immediate effect will not be great. But those interested in the system who have striven to make comparisons have felt that already the rapprochement has brought benefits. A system of education is after all, nothing but a type of mental architecture. If two competing plans for a building are presented to the expert at different times and places he finds comparison exceedingly difficult But if both are laid side by side in the same workroom then destructive criticism has some value, constructive criticism is possible, and only intolerant...