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Word: baker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence for the Dean of the Business School which is provided for under the provisions of the Baker Foundation is now being built for Dean Wallace Brett Donham '98, on the Business School Drive just east of the Baker Memorial Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESIDENCE FOR DEAN DONHAM WILL BE OCCUPIED BY JUNE 15 | 4/23/1929 | See Source »

...curtain, and noticed that the theatre was half-filled with students from the Zagreb Technical College. There was nothing surprising in this, for on the stage of the Zagreb Narodna Kazalista, usually the home of grand opera and classic drama, that slick-haired, honey-colored Harlem Negress. Josephine Baker, was due to appear. What worried the manager was the lack of welcome in the mien of the young Croatian technicians. When la Backaire, as most of Europe calls her, started to dance, her nubile body girdled with a zone of ripe bananas, the manager's worst fears were realized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Beets for Baker | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Clarkson Miller, onetime associate principal and History of Art teacher. She served during the War as director of Training School for canteen workers, and is now on many educational committees, among them the International Relations Committee of World Federation of Educational Association. She is successor to Miss Charlotte. S. Baker, now president of the Board of Trustees, onetime principal. Spence is deserting its old buildings to move into nine Georgian floors farther uptown-still just off Fifth Avenue. Money must be raised. Barnard's Dean Gildersleeve was called in to make (gratis) a stirring campaign speech and alumnae last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Spence | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Minister of War during "the" war, describes it in terms of exasperation, cynicism, vitriolic indignation. Though he was at the Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...programs are being edited this year by B. C. Sigal 2L, and will contain articles dealing with Disraeli the man, as well as with the play and its well-known author. P. W. Winer 3L, who is stage manager, was formerly with G. P. Baker's famous 47 Workshop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENORAH SOCIETIES TO PRESENT FOUR-ACT PLAY | 4/18/1929 | See Source »

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