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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism of Ernest Hemingway's best-selling novel, "A Farewell to Arms", reviews the progress this modern writer has made since his last novel. "The Sun Also Rises". Professor Charles Ball Grandgent's book of essays "The New Word", recently published by the University Press is among the books reviewed...
...rumored that over 100 men at Harvard, and 200 at Columbia, take anthropology courses and all are especially trained in making anthropometric tables. There are something over 500 institutions in this country devoted exclusively to the education of young ladies. Thus does science progress...
Traders, talking over the Morgan meeting, failed to remember any previous occasion on which a stock market conference had been called while a trading session was still in progress. They did recall, however, that in 1907, with call money at 125%. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou conferred with J. P. Morgan, put $25,000,000 of Government funds into Manhattan banks, halted the Panic. They remembered too the Northern Pacific crash of 1901. when, after Northern Pacific stock had gone overnight from $150 to $1,000 a share, the House of Morgan, representing the late great James J. Hill...
...time for fear of being caught off balance. One-man blocking is relied on for the most part which means that as soon as a back is across the line of scrimmage he will in all probability pick up two or three blockers to aid his further progress. It is a type of offense which is tremendously difficult to stop once it gets under way. There are any number of trick plays which develop quickly and with smoothness and precision when the attack is functioning properly. When it isn't going so well, however, the opposing team finds it pretty...
Much has been written on the subject of the recovery of Europe since the War. Many events in the present international arena, moreover, emphasize the fact that the progress of Europe is still the world's major economic problem...