Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have appreciated the letters I have received from him-evidently dictated personally-when I have had difficulties with changing my mailing address or had occasion to write perhaps critically on other subjects...
Harvard students desiring to go to the conference either as delegates to the League or the Labor Office meetings or as observers should write immediately to Miss Bonnie Bell Guernsey, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Applicants should state which organization they are interested in, and what country they desire to represent. The expenses will be limited to those incidental to transportation and to meals on Saturday; men chosen by the council as delegates after the submission of names will be given free lodging, but it will be necessary for observers to secure rooms for themselves...
...also in steel mills and coal mines. It is, in fact, found wherever gas is used. Unfortunately there are new poisons appearing all the time, but there is no governmental agency to investigate them. If a manufacturer wants to find out the quality of a rubber solvent, he can write to the Bureau of Standards; if he wants to find out the effects the solvent will have on his workmen, however, he is at a complete loss. Consequently he starts to use it cautiously and instead of using guinea pigs and rabbits, human beings are experimented upon...
Cameramen beset Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, in his office. They posed him in half a dozen positions, ordered him this way and that. In silence he bore their directions. Finally one cameraman called out, "Please write something on a piece of paper, Mr. Secretary." He wrote. The cameras clicked. On the paper were the words: "This is hell. C.F. Adams...
...March 30, in Widener V, an examination will be held to determine the winner of the Ricardo Prize Scholarship, which has an annual income of $500. At that time, candidates will be called on to write extemporaneously, in the examination room, an essay on a topic chosen by themselves, from a list, not previously announced, in economics and political science...