Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Day and night a Scotland Yard detective watches a plain brass knocker and the neatly engraved doorplate which bears the legend "No. 10" and marks the extremely modest Downing Street town-house of the British Prime Minister. There that exuberant countryman, Premier Stanley Baldwin, seems always a trifle like a...
Died. Henry Holt, 86, famed founder (1873) of the publishing firm which bears his name, writer of various books dealing with the cosmos and of Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor; at Manhattan, following an attack of bronchitis. On his 80th birthday, Mr. Holt said: "Any young man who drinks whisky...
Although I am sorely tempted by Professor Gay's lecture this morning in Harvard 1 on "Western Expansion", wherein he will emphasize the points of free land and scarce labor even a vagabond cannot be in two places at once, and at 9 o'clock, I expect to hear Professor...
But Dr. Peabody seems justified in his opinion that U. S. schools and schoolmasters are gaining in prestige and appreciation as "dominant" influences upon the modern boy. The fact that more members of Harvard 1925 went into teaching than into law bears him out. And the younger men now going...
March 6 is the date which has been set for the annual dinner at the Harvard Club of New York City in honor of Professor Charles Town-send Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, by the association which bears his name, it was announced yesterday by P. M...