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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Abraham Lincoln, President Hoover has special reverence. Lincoln's oldtime cabinet room in the southeast corner of the second floor of the White House, he has changed from a guest chamber to a study. From the attic has been brought a dusty old chair which the President believes originally stood there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Set for the Summer | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exactitude | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...Abraham H. Feller, who received his degree of A.B. from Columbia University in 1925 and his LL.B. cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1928, becomes Research Fellow in International Law, the appointment to run from April 1 to September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HENRI GUY COMES HERE AS LECTURER | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...Koetzle '30, R. K. Lamb ocC., E. G. Latham '30, Frank Litvack '29, Samuel Lowis '29, R. T. Moulton '30, J. J. O'Leary Jr. '30, G. J. Pick '32, W. S. Smith '30, R. G. Tinnerholm '30, F. M. Watkins '30, E. C. Weist '30, Abraham Wolper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 23 MEN ADDED TO DEAN'S LIST BY MAKEUP EXAMS | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

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