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Word: beacon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sponsored by the Scripps-Howard Times-Press. The program was a success in spite of one embarrassing circumstance: there was no Times-Press. In its edition that morning, the Times-Press announced that it had been acquired by its competitor, John S. Knight's rich and dowdy Beacon-Journal. Akron, a lusty industrial centre of 255,000 population, was left with one daily paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Loose Links | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Pont tower is probably the first private mausoleum in history with a six-passenger elevator, beacon lights and a carillon. Four concrete eagles stare from the tower's four corners, the Du Pont arms in concrete ornament the severe Renaissance façade. RECTITUDINE STO ("By rectitude I stand") is the motto carved above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tower at Nemours | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard "prom" would make such a dance repulsive to all but a very few. There would be the same notoriety, the same risk of financial loss, the same noise, the same unfortunate insults to officers of the University, the same whispers of scandal behind the purple panes of Beacon Hill as exist under the present system. And in addition the University would have admitted the failure of a large portion of the House Plan and would have found a much less desirable substitute. If dances are left in student hands John Harvard will be able to get along without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN CAN GET ALONG | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

BOSTON, May 12 (UP)-Marcellus Edward Wilde, 48, of Arlington Street, Cambridge, was found shot dead in a studio apartment on Beacon Street tonight. The occupant, Miss Alice Tripp, 21, told police that Wilde, an acquaintance, shot himself in the right temple. Wilde was a member of the class of 1915 at Harvard, but abandoned his studies to join the Lafayette Escadrille for World War Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide in Women's Apartment | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...that Mayor Kelly is "a Charley McCarthy" who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood [but] aside from that . . . hasn't missed a pitch," was in reality written by Milton S. Mayer, Chicago's journalistic Puck and our star writer, in a recent issue of The Beacon. The quotation reflects my sentiments. . . . SYDNEY JUSTIN HARRIS Editor The Beacon Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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