Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major features. The number of advisers was reduced to seventy-five; all the advisory force was to be picked from the Junior and Sophomore classes instead of from the Senior; and each advisee was given a group of Freshmen, who were to be the subjects of personal visits and written analyses...
...those who like their drama more or less straight, who go to the theatre with a serious purpose, Sidney Howard has written, and the Theatre Guild has produced, "The Silver Cord", now on the board of the Wilbur Theatre, with Laura Hope Crews, as in New York, heading a capable cast...
History as it is written in the present is yet very different from the history of a generation or two ago. Professor David S Muzzey of Columbia in a lecture Sunday at Repertory Hall emphasized the fact that history has to be constantly rewritten. "You could not study a text-book in physics written sixty years ago without making yourself ridiculous," he stated. "No more can you study a text-book of history written sixty years ago on the American Revolution. Historical scholars are continually discovering new material...
...example, the known history of Washington of a decade past was far less than that of the present day. Biographies containing new facts and exposing new angles have recently been written. The leader once considered the head of an ordered, unified whole has now become the great binding force in an aggregation of thirteen turbulent units. He is no longer the majestic, legendary figure of the old schoolbooks, but a human being with the usual quota of human frailities...
...present ambition," she asserted, "is to become an authoress, but after 14 years of writing for tabloid journals I feel that my style is molded the wrong way. In the newspaper game everything is written in a hurry for people who read in a rush. After helping people for so long a time with their marital and pre-marital difficulties, I need help myself...