Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this season's literature" you have as Fiction, Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis as the second book in the list. But on p. 38 under heading of "Bible Boar" you have a scathing criticism of the book in nearly four columns. . . . Such a book in any common use of the word is not "good" and should not be considered or advertised as "Cream." Such contradictions hurt TIME by destroying confidence. It hurts the reader by his losing a guide to good books. It hurts the author of the book . . . and it hurts the publishers, who with the authors...
Thus the businesslike Admiral has achieved de facto recognition of the Turkish Government by the U. S. President Coolidge will assumedly make use of his power to appoint an ambassador without consulting the Senate. Between them the President and the Admiral will have largely circumvented the Senate's obstinate refusal to ratify the Treaty of Lausanne...
...declared unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Refusing to take stock in the contention that conditions have changed, Chief Justice William Howard Taft simply pointed to a Supreme Court opinion of 1917 which declared that a Louisville (Ky.) ordinance invaded "the right to acquire, enjoy and use property which is guaranteed in equal measure to all citizens, white or colored, by the 14th Amendment...
...best training for the screen, including all facilities now in use, is the travelling stock company. Actors and actresses presenting their show in a different town every two or three nights, must deliver, or they will soon find themselves without engagements. Travelling actors live a hard life, and in every way, this prepares them for the strenuous life of the moving picture actor...
...when Cambridge was only a pleasant village lying between the University and the river and Boston was merely a thriving town, students and citizens of Cambridge were wont to use the Charlestown Ferry, or for variety's sake, they journeyed on the more round-about way of "Roxbury Neck." The ferry belonged to the college by a grant from the General Court and brought in to the University every year an income of about 500 pounds in New England currency, or 50 pounds sterling, a considerable sum according to the standards of the time...