Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowing a man to make use of the stipend for but two years the committee removes the stigma from those who find it necessary or desirable not to return for a third years. In many cases the type of education offered at Oxford is bound to vary from that expected or desired by the candidate who comes from a country of different traditions and standards. Two years should be sufficient to determine the possible value of a third, and if during this time the student finds that he has reaped all possible profit, it is unfortunate that the force...
Finally there are the Washington society-producers who stage the revue type of entertainment. Among these are: Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun. Claiming the Earl of Mar as an ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
...Motor Works turned out 13,000 Oldsmobiles (44% increase over March, 1928); Buick reached a March figure of 15,206.* Production has also been started on a new General Motors car -the Viking. Made at the Oldsmobile Lansing plant, the Viking is an 8-cylinder car with a V-type motor...
Male Brooke of Liverpool hinted darkly that "certain masculine women dare do all that may become a man. . . . Pupils of both sexes should be vigorously protected from the influence of persons of that type...
...Certain degenerate courtiers of dissolute Louis XV claimed to derive exquisite sensations from a partial hanging of this type, which they called Le Coup de Corde. Many experienced hangmen maintain, and so does Novelist James Joyce, that the sensations of a man at the moment he is hanged are by no means always unpleasant, to judge from spasmodic reactions often observed...