Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
...slightly greater fame and salary than the International's?Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same?"high-life" escapades, "low-life" escapades, apartment-house romances, love at first sight ?all manner of Tillie-the-Toiler skits in the popular, fiction-factory formulae, excellent literary trash and "what the public wants...
...Washington newspaper correspondents. President Coolidge was led to a seat next the Club's president, William E. Brigham. Most of the President's Cabinet was scattered through the throng, all regardless of rank. Ambassadors passed the salt to Senators. Senators hobnobbed over their soup with the men who write, and who sometimes rip, them up from day to day. Bankers and ballplayers, Bandmaster Sousa, Governors Smith of New York and Cox of Massachusetts, publishers aplenty?all in the flesh, eating and laughing and talking...
...Bulgarians, and Greeks war incessantly upon each other. The government finds it impossible to collect taxes from obdurate and crafty mountaineers, and at repeated intervals the government is administered from the decks of Italian cruisers, while the land heaves with rebellions. Ninety percent of the people neither read and write, nor wish to. Some of the people sigh for union with Italy, others look longing across the artificial border to Jugo-Slavia; but neither power is willing to, or would be allowed by the other, to occupy this territory. Bolshevists and "Whites" rampage about...
...Hasty Pudding Club announced last night that W. S. Martin '26 and J. C. Murphy '25 will write the 1925 Pudding Show...