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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is because a Bissell sweeper with its large brush is particularly efficient on any kind of miscellaneous litter, because of its extreme lightness and handiness to use, because it is ready the instant you pick it up and costs little. In others words, it is simply a ball bearing bristle broom-on-wheels with its own long handled dust pans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...really started lest Spring when we conducted a book drive for the Law Loan Library. About 25 case books were contributed by the students, and a number of others by professors. We have given out every book in the Library which is not obsolete; we have 207 now in use by 85 men. This is a slight decrease from last year. An intensive drive for text-books is planned this spring which will again make the library equal to the demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SOCIETY REPORTS ACTIVITY | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

...experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive. Let us try to cut down this expenditure and use the money to promote advisable economic reforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...cartoonist scoffed at the idea that an art school training would be of any great value to a would-be cartoonist. "There isn't much art in a comic strip, and I doubt whether going to an art school could be of much use anyhow. I never went to one, and most other cartoonists I know of never did. Experience and hard work, of course, are necessary preliminaries for a career at the drawing-board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARTOONIST MUST HAVE SYMPATHETIC EYE AND MIND, DECLARES BRIGGS | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...political cartoon is a sort of picture editorial. The narrative cartoon is by far the easiest form. The cartoonist can work a series around the adventures of certain characters, like the Gumps or the Joneses, or use a joke as the basis of the cartoon as Bud Fisher does so often in "Mutt and Jeff." These methods are comparatively simple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARTOONIST MUST HAVE SYMPATHETIC EYE AND MIND, DECLARES BRIGGS | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

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