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Also on the program will be Bancroft Beatley, President of Simmons College, and Eugene Randolph Smith, Headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER WILL SPEAK AT MEETING OF TEACHERS | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

...find, it seems, only rusty old arms to wear--and these have been piled in the Tower for many years--but I to trim them and put them on but find a helmet is wanting; so I to use a morion and with certain papers paste together a beaver for it, but alas, quite undid all the morning's labor at the first test blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list wood pulp and newsprint, crude asbestos, wood shingles (with limitations), lobsters, telegraph poles, undressed mink, beaver, muskrat and wolf skins, nickel ore, cobalt and quahaugs. Other items on which the U. S. duty was reduced: electric cooking stoves, lacrosse sticks, swordfish (if not frozen), eels, chubs, saugers and tullibees, pipe organs for churches, ice skates, alewives in bulk, rutabagas and polymerized or unpolymerized vinyl acetate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Consumers' Deal | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...sits upon the King's Bench Division of Britain's High Court of Justice. Fond of golfing, fishing, motoring, he has to remember a raft of things which few U. S. judges ever heard of. He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when for courtroom appearance he changes from his usual black robe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler & Cricket | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...character, a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, only daughter of General '"Stonewall" Jackson. For years Miss Fanny's precarious finances induced her to part with a great flood of letters and manuscripts belonging to her father and Forger Spring had to work like a beaver to keep up with the demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Forger Spring | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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