Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interviewed agreed that the greatest difficulty with checks was the fact that students who are careless of their accounts, frequently write checks against an overdrawn account unintentionally. Another thing which is often done is writing checks against money just deposited, which the bank has not had time to credit...
Unto this misused and sorry setting, Mr. Purdy, the hapless author, has introduced a plot that is positively brilliant. He has to start with two main characters: Joe Bagley, who has a drygoods store and a tremendous ambition to write editorials for the "Glendale Observer", and Kenneth Dodge, who has been set up by a proud father as associate editor of that paper. But alas, although the father was once a great editor, the son knows not the meaning of pen and paper, but leans rather towards dry goods management. We just couldn't think how Mr. Purdy would...
Undergraduates in the University will have an opportunity to compete in a nation-wide contest for six prizes of $1000 each to be awarded to the students of college grade who write the best essays on each of six designated topics relating to chemistry. The contest is being conducted by the American Chemical Society...
...Write Funny Poems...
...often wondered whether or not it was a joy to write funny poems. F. P. A., I know, works very diligently over his, pays particular attention to the rhythms and rhymes, is a meticulous versifier. Don Marquis writes in more robust mood. Arthur Guiterman is especially facile. His verses move rapidly. I imagine he writes them rapidly. That is often their chief charm as well as their great fault...