Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreshadowed by the cool reception given the Junior Prom last year comes the decision of the Class of 1931 to abandon what would appear to be an out worn tradition left over from the days of a smaller Harvard...
...Junior Prom, for years the only organized winter social function at Harvard, has been discontinued according to an announcement made last night by J. N. Trainer '31, president of the Junior Class. The decision to abandon the traditional dance came as a result of a conference with the other officers of the class and a through perusal of the records of last year's Prom committee according to Trainer...
...childhood an astrologer warned against sea voyages, Composer Lehar, 60, will not travel to California for the recording. No novice at singing, Gloria Swanson has studied intermittently since her Chicago schooldays. Only when Mack Sennett offered her a cinema contract and a wardrobe of bathing suits did she definitely abandon the idea of a concert career...
SINGING IN THE BATHTUB and LADY LUCK (Brunswick)-Dick Robertson sings the first with life-like abandon...
...holdings, in memory of their father, Dr. Charles Edgar Welch. Founder of the company, Dr. Welch was known up to his death in 1926 as an ardent prohibitionist. His discovery, with his father, of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice"* led him to abandon his Philadelphia dental practice and pull the teeth of the grape. High points in his career were: member, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; delegate, General Conference of M. E. Church (four times); trustee, Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua, N. Y.; president, town of Westfield...