Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial men have has opportunity of expressing their opinions on current events and academic matters. They will write on the average of one editorial a day. Editorial Chairman R. S. Morison '30 will explain their duties to them...
...group of Chinese men gathered last week in a large dismal house in Hong Kong. They watched a man write figures on a board, erase them, write other figures. None spoke loudly but each spoke often. They were selling silver and they were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver...
...article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields, it seems safe to say that the policy throughout...
...such character was "Michael." He blushed and shuffled backwards when asked to make a speech. Nonetheless, he had the Tenth (now Eleventh) ward in his pocket. When he died, 4,000 friends followed him to his grave and his enemies could write no harsher epitaph than: "The Champion Payroller of Jackson County...
...southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money off it. Please explain all about the oil well. ... I hope the good Lord will bless you all in every...