Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer of the communication printed in this column has called to the attention of the University something which is badly needed in the present curriculum. In fact this something is so badly needed that it is strange that the gap has not before this been filled. That the average Englishman is more interested in the government of his country and consequently knows more about it than the average American is a widely accepted fact. Perhaps in recognition of this, educators and prominent men throughout the country are constantly advocating the teaching of citizenship in public schools. They could, therefore, with...
Events in Poland have reached a state where the prognostications of a writer in the New Statesman (TIME, July 30) to the effect that there will be another partition of Poland within the next 20 years seem to be fully justified...
...silk stocking; surely rain can do as much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...
...When reading one of the recent Yale papers lately i happened upon an article relating to football matches between Harvard and Yale, which were so much desired and talked about last spring. The writer complained of Harvard's refusal to join a convention which met in New York last fall, and thought that football matches could be arranged with out much difficulty if a meeting were held at some half-way point to draw up a set of rules by which games between the two Colleges could be governed. He then went on to state the difference between the rules...
When once the author has married his unmarried mother, the novel becomes a story instead of a stage set, but with no change of heart on the part of the writer. The couple live together long enough to give Mr. Sergel a chance to expose the 'young married" life of an lowa town, and then a convenient automobile accident polishes off the husband. This felicitous circumstance enables Mr. Sergel to try his hand at existence in the metropolis of Des Moines, the only advantage of which for the reader is that he can obtain all the thrills of a story...