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Word: amounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building comparatively young, as Harvard buildings go, and entirely outside the hallowed precincts of the Yard, Beck Hall has accumulated an extraordinary amount of tradition, and on more than one occasion has been saved from destruction by its sentimental associations. It saw its hey-day in the gay nineties when the more fact of residence within its walls constituted a mark of social distinction, and when many of the men who have since held high rank among Harvard graduates were associated with it. As a monument to the Harvard of twenty and thirty years ago Beck Hall will always live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FINAL CRISIS | 4/24/1928 | See Source »

...Passed a resolution increasing from $5 to $10 the amount per acre the Department of Agriculture may spend in enlarging game sanctuaries on the upper Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

There was a new judge. There was a new jury. There was a certain amount of new evidence. But it was the same old case-the U. S. v. Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for alleged conspiracy to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Forever | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Work in the business department offers much valuable experience and will give the candidates an opportunity to familiarize themselves with modern advertising and business methods. Soliciting and writing advertisements, as well as a certain amount of routine office work, will comprise a large amount of the work of the candidate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WILL ISSUE LAST CALL TO 1931 TOMORROW | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...comparison of the ten best divisional examination papers at Harvard and Yale in English, or in any other subject, with appropriate prizes provided for the college which is deemed to have struck the higher average could scarcely in itself be detrimental to the best interests of education. A certain amount of glory attached to the victorious college an to the individual victors is also desirable as an incentive to greater academic effort. The glory thus won by the victorious college is, however, all too easily converted into an assumption of definite educational supremacy. And no sense of educational values could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BEST COLLEGE | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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