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Word: 131st (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most brilliant affairs of the season. The guests did not begin to arrive, at the Foot-Lights Club in West 131st Street, until well after midnight. When they did come, they were the elite- Pope B. Billups, candidate for Judge; Dr. Alain Locke, professor of philosophy at Howard University; Actress Gertrude Saunders, Composer Ford Dabney and many another Harlem notable-fashionable Dr. H. Binga Dismond, for example, and ¶ Franklin Carr, the mortician. The ten-course dinner had been cooked by Irvin ¶ Miller himself, president of the Foot-Lights Club and of Miller Productions, Inc., brother of Flournoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Florence Mills Warned | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Amherst, Mass., Amherst College entered upon its 104th year with John Coolidge, son of President Calvin Coolidge, one of 210 freshmen with a few words from Acting President and President-elect George D. Olds, concerning changes in Amherst's faculty, curriculum, landscape. At Williamstown, Mass., the 131st year of Williams College began when President Harry A. Garfield opened a service in Thompson Memorial Chapel, reminded his hearers that each of them was a responsible part of the collegiate whole. At South Hadley, Mass., President Mary E. Woolley launched Mount Holyoke College upon its 87th year by ruminating upon womankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Collegiate | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

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