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...York Stock Exchange seats of Henry E. Cone and George L. Loft (son of George W. Loft, candy man) were sold to W. A. Beaver and Arnold Wood, Jr., respectively, for the low price of $80,000 apiece -a decline of $2,000 from the last sale. Secretary Cox of the Exchange said: "These sales nail the lie that memberships are being offered at $75,000 and less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cheap Seats | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...Walcott, whose daring experiments, with color and impressionism in his pictures of ancient temples in Ephesus and Babylonia have caused a sensation in London art circles, is well known in the streets of London because of his long beard. Wherever he goes he is assailed with loud cries of "Beaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Unfortunate Walcott | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...powers, and fifty times the virtues of any race that ever lived on earth would end within a generation in a state of hopeless barbarism; the earth would return to the days of primeval forests and swamps, and man descend almost to the level of the monkey and the beaver." And he adds: "Now if . . . we are so deeply indebted and so indissolubly bound to past ages, if all our hopes of the future depend on a sound understanding of the past, we cannot fancy any knowledge more important than the knowledge of the way in which this civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY CHARMS AND TEACHES SAYS LORD | 4/13/1923 | See Source »

...says the N. Y. Tribune While the Squash team, no doubt, plays Beaver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/23/1923 | See Source »

...lettered in Emerson, in Harvard they are numbered, and vacillating Sever, by using both methods, compromises between the two. This may be fascinating and charming, but if these qualities are what is desired, it would be much more effective to give each room a name; call Harvard 6 King Beaver, for instance, or Sever 1 Evangeline, just as is done on Pullman cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODD NUMBERS | 11/27/1922 | See Source »

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