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Word: berwyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Parishioners of St. Michael and All Angels' Protestant Episcopal Church, in Berwyn, Chicago suburb, last week, went to the church house for dancing lessons started by the rector's wife. She is Dorothy Deuel, famed in Broadway musical shows, before her marriage a year ago to Rev. Henry Scott Rubel, as one of a featured sister dancing team. She hopes, she said, to be able to add to the parish funds through her classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Miserable Sinners | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Radio "Separator." In Berwyn, Chicago suburb, radio engineers crowded around L. William Skala, young graduate of the University of Prague, to observe his demonstration of a device for separating two radio messages sent simultaneously by different transmitters set at the same frequency. A wave-metre showed that the transmitters were on identical wave lengths. The "beat" note or interference whistle was heard in the receiver before the test. Then Skala attached one of his devices to each transmitter and one to the receiver. With a switch at the receiving end he was able to "cut out" either transmitter at will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Progress | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...appear as a public entertainer before diplomats who knew him as a Premier of Poland," said some. "He hates the Administration because it opposed the League of Nations," conjectured others. Whatever the reason, managers went out to find a hall for him as near Washington as possible; tried Hyattsville, Berwyn, Laurel, Rockville; chose Hagerstown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Hagerstown | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...recent meeting of the University Glee Club the following men were elected to membership: Alexander Lyman Abbott '22, of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y.; William Thayer Ames '24, of Cambridge; Gershon Pereival Bickford Jr. '22, of Berwyn, Md.; Algernon David Black '23, of New York City; Charles Louis Fincke '24, of Newton; Henry Sayles Francis '24, of Boston; William Nahum Gates '24, of Elyria, O.; John Upham Harris '24, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; Murlin Glenn Hoover 2G.B., of Galesbury, III.; Stockton Kimball '24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Ernest Frederic Knauth Jr. '24, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB ELECTS SIXTEEN MEN | 1/25/1922 | See Source »

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