Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...During the last few years at Harvard," he said, "baseball has fallen into about the worst rut that it has ever known at the University. This is undoubtedly due to a great many causes but the most important one, I believe, is the lack of interest which is shown by the undergraduates. Less enthusiasm and spirit of competition is being shown on the baseball diamond than in any other major sport...
...this column we once called Grover Bergdoll, America's most infamous draft dodger, a bum. Recent news from Germany indicates that he has been doing his best- or worst-to prove we were right...
...having seen the worst half of "His People" first, and the first part last, we found it a tolerably dull production. From advance notices, we know that others in better authority caught the thrill of this little Jewish household and admired the skill of Rudolph Schildekraut in the leading part. Mr. Schildekraut's work was always effective, but the direction is not equal to the task of stressing one character. We are thinking now of "The Last Laugh" in which everything was subordinated to the person of Emile Jannings in the guise of an old wash-room attendant. Director Murnan...
...York University and director since 1894 of the New York Health Department Bureau of Laboratories. During the War A.E.F. medical officers esteemed highly the efficacious serums of this bureau and traveled miles to get them from supply depots. Dr. Park has characterized pneumonia as "probably about the worst disease we have left to conquer, aside from those which attack adults of comparatively advanced age. Pneumonia now kills more persons every year than tuberculosis. [The last thorough data (1923) gives the U. S. pneumonia death rate as 109 per 100,000 of population.] Human beings are liable to it at practically...
...salary." In England judges are paid $20,000 to $50,000, but Chief Justice Taft receives only $15,000, and the Associate? Justices who serve with him get $500 a year less. Mr. Davis quoted John Marshall: " 'An ignorant, corrupt and de pendent judiciary is the worst affliction any people can suffer. No man who is inadequately paid can be independent in thought.' "If the present salaries are to be continued, judges should be required to take the oath of celibacy so as not to expose their dependents to the hardships which such salaries entail...