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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to have the clay and cinders down pretty soon, to pave it; although I understand the students around here are going to have it paved with gold. I guess they could all right!" This last sally pleased the foreman immensely and he turned the pulpit over to Dennis Enright, veteran grounds keeper, who stood by ready to reinforce the dialogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31) did not fully crystallize until last week. Then, at a Cabinet meeting, Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha voiced the real dissatisfaction of Turks at the action of the U. S. Senate. The U. S., said Dictator Kemal, in substance, does not understand that the "Terrible Turk" of Ottoman days is extinct. . . . The Young Turks of today are trying harder and with more success than any other backward people to catch up with the march of civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Youth Going West | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...many understand," the captain ended, "we do not allow the students to take out horses alone, until we are sure that there is a reasonable chance that the two will not return individually after the ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Holds Bit in Front of Horse's Mouth for Five Minutes But Dobbin Doesn't Bite--Equestrians Saved by Horses' Ears | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Before tackling Nietzsche it is almost essential to have a general notion of the man's life and thought in order to understand what he attempted to do. Without such a notion one is sure to get lost in the confusion of styles, aphorisms, hymns, epithets and curses that are composed with such violence and passion. As a broad, general treatment, this book will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected...

Author: By Dinsmore WHEELER ., | Title: The Doctrine of Simplicity and the Dogma of Defiance | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon ., | Title: This Non-Stop Age | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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