Word: uniformally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is, however, another field in which the demands of the publishers for uniform sizes is diametrically opposed to the best interest of the public, while somewhat favorable to the writers themselves. James Harvey Robinson has complained of the reluctance of publishers to accept works of a scientific or historical nature in the convenient-for the public size of from twenty to forty thousand words. Scientific writers, he notes, are equally reluctant to go to the trouble of condensing and reducing their material to this easily readable size. But a scientific book of seventy-five thousand words is rather...
...automobile, carrying four men in the Free State army uniform and one machine gun, dashed into Queenstown about nightfall and stopped at a pier where some Britsh soldiers from Spike Island had just landed. The gun was trained on the Tommies, fire was opened. One soldier was killed, two women (bystanders) and 28 soldiers were wounded-four so seriously that they are not expected to recover. The car then left the pier, drove along the high-road past the Queenstown Yacht Club where the assassins trained the gun on the British destroyer Scythe. They fired but inflicted no casualties...
Rafael Sabatini three years ago was all but unknown in America. Since then, with the publication of "Scaramouche", half a million copies of his books have been sold: As witness of his great popularity Houghton Mifflin Company are to issue a uniform collected edition of his works in thirteen volumes of short stories based on historical themes, and two important works of history. Sabatini's latest book, "Mistress Wilding", is a colorful romance of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. A review of this new Sabatini novel will, we hope, appear in the CRIMSON Book shelf shortly...
...uniform edition of Matthew Arnold's work, in twelve volumes, has just been brought out by. The Macmillan Company. The six volumes of essays include the famous "Essays in Criticism," "Culture and Anarchy," etc., there are three volumes of poetry, and the remaining volumes are "Discourses in America," "Literture and Dogma," and "God and the Bible." The volumes can all be bought separately...
...scattered rural communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown to San Francisco, Dean Churchill's educational millenium would be considerably nearer at hand...