Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season, as compared to Harvard's four. The B. U. quintet has won only two games out of the six played, losing to M. I. T., Wesleyan, Tufts, and Rhode Island, and winning over Brown and Worcester Technology. Whereas, Harvard has won over Northeastern, Worcester Technology, and Middlebury, and although defeated by M. I. T., made a very creditable showing in that game...
...Although now a rich exhibitor, he had nothing to do with making pictures to be exhibited, an industry which had developed from Edison's kinetoscope to a small, tight trust consisting of ten producing companies. Zukor, looking for new attractions for his houses, had been thinking of production when he wrote the slogan that afterward became the name of his company?the Famous Players. Gambling all his money on his belief that there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings...
...Ballington Booth, was in charge in the U. S. With his wife he was very successful, made many friends. Nonetheless Father William Booth abruptly ordered him home. Brother Ballington refused to obey, resigned from the Army, organized the Volunteers of America in rebellion. The Volunteers are still in existence, although not at all powerful...
...week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough for men." Crowds of 25,000 and more swarmed last week at the gates of the Ford plants, clamoring for the new jobs. They were being taken on at the rate of some 500 a day. Although many came from far East and West in quest of work, preference was given to men already living in Detroit...
...Still more jobs would be open if Ford plans for a two-mile tunnel, to bring 1,000,000,000 gallons of water a day from the Detroit River, were approved by city authorities. The tunnel would be the property of the city, although built by Ford money. The project was laid before the Detroit aldermen last week...