Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glass, the lustre of amber
from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of
phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base,
...count. This figure contrasts with the door-count of 450 of the Harvard Club of Boston, a typical, active city club, and it shows a great increase over door-counts of past years. Daily, 450 meals are served, and large numbers of men use the library, reading, lounging, and billiard rooms. In addition, the Union promises to be financially self-supporting this year for the first time. The turn-over this year was approximately...
...surmise. What its chief characteristic will be is perhaps fore-shadowed by the report, which flatly states that "the main consideration must always be the educational one." In other words, in limiting the size of its enrolment. Harvard will be consistently considered not as an asylum for amateur billiard players, a refuge for refractory aristocrats or an agency of the Parents League, but as an educational institution, existing primarily for those who seek an education. And with this settled the problem of the method of limitation is simplified. For it means that since no change is contemplated in the character...
...presidency Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Chemical Enterpreneur and Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Baekeland, a Belgian by birth, is an American by adoption. He is best known for his invention of "bakelite," the synthetic substitute for hard rubber and amber, widely used in pipe-stems, billiard balls, fountain pens...
Separated. Mrs. Willie Hoppe, from her husband, world's champion billiard player...