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Seniors in the academic department and in Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven, selecting their "favorite college next to Yale", differ widely as to whether the coveted second place should fall to Princeton or Harvard. "Ac" prefers Cambridge culture by a 12-point margin but the husky engineers of "Shef" are apparently repelled by Harvard's reputed aestheticism, and pass her by entirely in favor of Princeton, Dartmouth and Smith. Consequently, in the combined total Princeton takes a considerable lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second Fiddle | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...were making. 1,599,459 barrels of good beer every year. His maroon-painted trucks with the spread-eagle trademark rumbled through every large U. S. city delivering cases of beer to barrooms, clubs and homes. He was wealthy. It was Kolossal, his casual hiring of entire hotels to ac commodate his guests for a season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kolossal | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...reporters noted specially the vehicle whispered of by timorous Cantonese as "Jumbo's Box Car." It would readily hold nine men, and considerable tools or luggage be- sides. It had extra high gears. It was battered, dented and per- forated with the marks of a hundred unguessable expeditions. Ac- tually quite innocent, it seemed to symbolize the spirit of what the Ohio underworld casually refers to as "the Mellett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Stench | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

With levity the New York Sun last week printed some alleged facts about Childs restaurants, facts which were not denied. Ac cording to the account, the management, which had shrewdly established white as symbolic of the cleanliness of foods served by the 3,500 white-clad waitresses in their 109 white-tiled restaurants, is as shrewdly beginning to insert cheer ful green among the white tiles. "Younger and prettier" serving girls are to be hired and are to wear uniforms trimmed with green. "The girls are just the same as the tile," an officer of the company is alleged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Improved Childs | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...date we have found about 50 new buildings in Chenchomac, Muyel, or Chunyazehe, Xkarel-Chakalol, Paalmul, Ac, and Ocomal. At Muyel which is about 10 miles inland from Boca Pails above Ascension Bay we found a rather fine castillo 54 feet high with a round cupolo on the roof mask panels, door ways with columns and a fine stairway. Also at this site there was built over another temple. The two side doors of the lower temple were filled in but the middle one was left open and was entered by a long tunnel under the stairway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPINDEN AND MASON IN YUCATAN REVEAL LURE OF WILDS IN LETTERS | 3/30/1926 | See Source »

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