Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editions of "The Copeland Reader," edited by Professor C. T. Copeland '82, gave been published by Charles Scribner's Sons comprising a two-volume edition designed for text-book use, and a five-volume subscription edition of elaborate design. The text-book edition has one volume devoted to the American reading, and one containing only the English literature treated in the Reader...
...have been published to satisfy the varying tastes of the book-buying public, and make the readings which Professor Copeland has collected during his connection with the University available for the classroom as well as for the library. The original edition of the Reader was not designed for classroom use, nor was it treated in an elaborate manner. In the new editions these requirements...
...Louis Israel Dublin, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. had said: "Beginning with 1920 there has been a continuous and marked rise in the number of deaths resulting from the use of alcohol. . . . The quality of liquor used throughout the country is sufficiently bad to make up for the smaller quantity consumed. . . . We may summarize our findings as follows: that the Prohibition period is characterized by sharply declining mortality rates among children and adolescents of both sexes, and that this decline is continued over a number of additional age periods among women. The improvement is retarded among young male adults...
International Business Machines Corp. showed an electric tabulating and accounting machine that automatically compiled data from "tabulating" cards. These cards bear holes punched according to an office code to represent various factors necessary for bookkeeping. The holes regulate the action of counters on the machine. Governments use this system (called the Hollerith) in census work...
...little in plot and invention from innumerable other pictures the reviewer could enumerate if he had a memory for names. Enough, that it plays in Paris with scenes from the Place de la Concorde and the Latin Quarter. It seems unnecessary to examine the plot further. In spirit, to use that nebulous word, it differs, however, from the other fruit on the family tree. That new spirit is due without any doubt to the presence of Pola Negri. She is not pretty the bathing beauty sense, yet it is perhaps her face which gives the tone to the whole picture...