Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the Vagabond enjoys two outside lectures which promise to provide him with no little interesting material. The process of rounding off the rough edges, which long years of concentration and distribution have left on his education is a thoroughly pleasant one, and the Vagabond is not the man to let pass by the opportunity to learn a little about art and literature when the occasion comes...
While not of startling importance it is nevertheless pleasant to realize that the Harvard Architectural School has been singled out from the rest of American schools of its kind as the recipient of the medal awarded by the French Government for the best record of progress and accomplishment during the past year...
...Less pleasant than Sing Sing are New York's Auburn and Dannemora, with their ancient cell blocks, cramped, fetid cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...
Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...
...Richardson, operations manager of the Mexican division of Pan American Airways, flying north on his regular trip from Guatemala to Mexico, swung close to Santa Maria, looked idly down at the boiling lava in her cauldron. Peons working in the coffee shrubberies stopped to wave a feliz viaje (pleasant journey...