Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having just concluded the fiftieth year of active business in the steel industry, in the natural course of events, I do very little except touch the high spots now, and have implicit confidence in the person I always speak of as 'my boy'-although he is not a boy any more-to carry on the work of the Bethlehem Company better than I was ever able to carry it on; so that I am very happy in placing practically the entire responsibility with reference to everything pertaining to the Bethlehem company in Mr. Grace's hands...
...statesmen who have turned tycoons the U. S. has few. Of statesmen or tycoons of the kind which stepped on U. S. shores last week, the U. S. has none whatever. For he is a man who (one may presume) would not deny except in modesty that his brilliant conversation has charmed many beautiful women, that wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson...
Newsgatherers were soon asking Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island what he would do about Mr. Blackshear. Bishop Stires was pained, but he explained that the Episcopal Church leaves the individual parish practically autonomous. He declined to express any opinion except this: "Personally I have the greatest affection and a warm paternal feeling for our colored brethren...
...blocked the famous Geneva conference for a trifling monetary consideration. That he bent every effort toward doing so, there is no doubt. That he was paid to do just that thing, the corporations which gave him the money are endeavoring to disprove. The situation is disagreeable to every one except, perhaps, Mr. Shearer, who appears to derive the pleasures of life in what must be termed at best, unusual ways...
...first meetings of all courses will be held today and tomorrow, except as indicated below. All students are required to attend the first meetings of their courses. For all courses of research for which no hours are stated, consult the Instructors. ANTHROPOLOGY 1 Wed. at 9 Sem. Mus. 1 2 Thurs. at 11 Peabody Mus. 4 Thurs. at 10 Peabody Mus. 5a Wed. at 11 Peabody Mus. 10 Wed. at 11 Peabody Mus. 17 Wed. at 10 Peabody...