Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticeable that most great English histories were writton by men whose work in other fields was their main object in life. What American would be able to sit down between novels and write and Outline of History. How many American college graduates carry into their life of later years any enjoyment of the things they studied in college? Perhaps one reason for the precipitancy with which our college men are prone to forget the literature and art they studied and for the most part enjoyed in their undergraduate years, is the erratic system of studying which is too often favored...
...write to our Congressman...
...post-War depression and readjustment had nibbled away at inventories and surplus so that earlier that year dividends on common stock had to be suspended. It seemed to President Julius Rosenwald and his associates that, to balance on the year, they would have to write off inventories hugely, pass dividends and even levy on holders of common stock some fraction of their stocks. Now these gentlemen knew that much of the common stock was owned by employes of the company who, more than usual investors, would be hurt. To such levy there was of course the resource of all business...
Last year: "Sergei Yessenin has just written me that he has gone into the Caucasus to become a bandit. ... He writes that he is going to be a robber for the thrills. ... He wants to write poetry about robbery, and feels that he must gain experience as a bandit...
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